American military shoulder arms . Volume II From the 1790s to the end of the Flintlock period / / George D. Moller

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910823370203321
• Autore: Moller George D.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albuquerque : , : University of New Mexico Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• ISBN: 1-280-39999-6; 9786613577917; 0-8263-4999-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (557 p.)
• Disciplina: 623.4/40973; 623.440973
• Soggetti: United States Armed Forces Firearms History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 100. SMALL ARMS PROCUREMENT ACTIONS OF THE U.S. CONGRESS IN 1794; 105. FEDERAL PERIOD IMPORT ARMS; .1 British Muskets; .2 British Carbines; .3 Unidentified Federal Period Imported Muskets; .7 Imported Ketland Locks; .9 Hanoverian Muskets; 125. 1792 U.S. CONTRACT ARMY RIFLE; .G Jonathan Graeff Rifle; 130. MODEL 1795 MUSKET, SPRINGFIELD ARMORY; .1 (Type I) Musket, 1795-1806; .2 (Type II) Musket, 1806-1809; .3 (Type III) Musket, 1809-1814; .4 (Type IV) Musket, 1813-1815; 131. MODEL 1795 SPRINGFIELD MUSKET, FIXED BAYONET ALTERATION; 133. MODEL 1795 SPRINGFIELD MUSKET, 1813 SPRINGFIELD ARMORY ALTERATION 134. MODEL 1795 MUSKET, HARPERS FERRY ARMORY; 136. ARMORY AND ARSENAL REPAIRED/REBUILT MODEL 1795 MUSKETS; .1 Armory Repaired/Rebuilt Muskets; .2 Arsenal Repaired/Rebuilt Muskets; .3 Configurations of Armory and Arsenal Repaired/Rebuilt Muskets; 137. MODEL 1812 MUSKET, SPRINGFIELD ARMORY; .1 Model 1812 (Type I) Musket; .2 Model 1812 (Type II) Musket; .3 Model 1812 (Type III) Musket; 138. U.S. NAVY MUSKETS; .1 1796 Contract Ship Musket; .2 French Brass-Mounted Muskets; .3 Short ; British Ship Musket; .4 Springfield Ship Musket; .6 Navy Procurement from the War of 1812.8 Navy Procurement of Whitney and Wickham Muskets; 139. 1794 U.S. CONTRACT MUSKETS; .2 1794 U.S. Contract Muskets of the French Model 1766 Configuration; .4 1794 U.S. Contract Muskets That Do Not Conform to the French Model 1766 Pattern; 140. 1798 U.S. CONTRACT MUSKETS; 141. 1808 U.S. CONTRACT MUSKETS; 142. 1812 U.S. CONTRACT MUSKETS; 144. STATE-OWNED, MILITIA, AND OTHER MILITARY MUSKETS; .C Connecticut; .D Delaware; .G Georgia; .I Maine; .J Maryland; .K Massachusetts; .M New Hampshire; .N New Jersey; .P New York; .S Pennsylvania; .U Rhode Island; .W South Carolina.X Virginia; .Z Unidentified State and Militia Muskets; 145. STATE-PROCURED AND MILITIA MILITARY RIFLES; .C Connecticut; .H Kentucky; .J Maryland; .K Massachusetts; .N New Jersey; .P New York; .S Pennsylvania; .U South Carolina; .X Virginia; 146. MILITIA MUSKETOONS; .1 (Type I) Militia Musketoon; .2 (Type II) Militia Musketoon; .3 (Type III) Militia Musketoon; 147. NAVAL BLUNDERBUSSES AND SWIVEL GUNS; .F New England Blunderbuss; .M ""PITTSBURGH"" Swivel Gun; .P ""T. FRENCH"" Swivel Gun; 149. MODEL 1803 HARPERS FERRY RIFLE; .1 Model 1803 (Type I) Harpers Ferry Rifle; .2 Model 1803 (Type II) Harpers Ferry Rifle 151. 1807 U.S. CONTRACT ARMY RIFLES; 152. MODEL 1807 SPRINGFIELD INDIAN CARBINE; .1 Model 1807 Springfield Indian Carbine, Original Configuration; .2 Model 1807 Springfield Indian Carbine, 1814 Cadet Alteration; .3 Model 1807 Springfield Indian Carbine, 1830-1832 Cadet Alterations; 153. U.S. CONTRACT ARMS FOR THE INDIANS; .1 Pre-1803 Indian Rifles; .2 Tench Coxe Contract Indian Rifles; .3 Indian Arms Procured by the Office of Indian Trade and the Bureau of Indian Affairs; 155. MODEL 1814 U.S. CONTRACT RIFLE; .2 Deringer Variant Pattern Model 1814 U.S. Contract Rifle
• Sommario/riassunto: American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume II, contains more than three hundred photographs. As with the previous volume, Volume II is written primarily for students of arms, but also contains material of interest to historians, museum specialists, collectors, and dealers of antique arms.

Secret wars and secret policies in the Americas, 1842-1929 / / Friedrich E. Schuler

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910955369403321
• Autore: Schuler Friedrich Engelbert <1960->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, 2010
• ISBN: 9780826344908; 0826344909; 9781283636919; 1283636913; 9780826344915; 0826344917
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (578 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.8052090/34
• Soggetti: Latin America Foreign relations 19th century; Latin America Foreign relations 20th century; Latin America Foreign relations Europe; Europe Foreign relations Latin America; Latin America Foreign relations Japan; Japan Foreign relations Latin America
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 542-553) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: [Pt.] I. Imperial powers turn ethnic people into a security threat (1860-1914). Before European and Japanese governments manipulated immigrants in the Americas -- Becoming useful : the first Japanese and German experiments with ethnic manipulations in the West -- Mexico discovers Japan as a potential strategic wedge against the United States -- [pt.] II. The secret warfare that established the benchmark for future Allied war fears (1910-18). The Mexican Revolution : the first complex Japanese policy in Latin America beyond diplomacy -- Four waves of secret warfare -- Japan's navy exploits the opportunities World War I offers -- President Carranza explores warfare against the United States : certainly not a victim -- The war breaks all certainties of imperialism : the Battle of Jutland and the collapse of Allied war financing -- The ; Zimmerman telegram and its aftermath : a research update -- Argentina's president Hipólito Irigoyen : personalist hispanista secret diplomacy -- [pt.] III. In expectation of failure of the League of Nations (1919-22). Venustiano Carranza and Japanese spies move next to ethnic businessmen and emigrants in Latin America (1919-22) -- Argentina imagines arming itself in the midst of more Japanese spying -- [pt.] IV. Not acting as U.S., British, and French political idealists had hoped (1922-24). Latin American diplomats assert a policy of armed peace -- Italian, German, and Japanese governments and Soviet communists resume manipulations of ethnic communities and workers in the Americas (1923) -- Spain's elites lay the foundations for a global Iberian commonwealth -- [pt.] V. Forging military connections for the transnational fascism of the 1930s (1925-28). Now that we can arm freely -- Primo de Rivera and Alfonso XIII exploit Germany's secret rearmament -- [pt.] VI. In place of an end : a sketch of the new round of secret activities.
• Sommario/riassunto: The intrigue and subterfuge revealed in this revisionist study add a fascinating new dimension to our understanding of transpacific and transatlantic politics following World War I.