1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910691068203321

Autore

Walker David M (David Michael), <1951->

Titolo

Defense acquisition [[electronic resource] ] : employing best practices can shape better weapon system decisions : statement of David M. Walker, comptroller general of the United States, before the Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support, Committee on Armed Services, U.S. Senate / / United States General Accounting Office

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : The Office, , [2000]

Collana

Testimony ; ; GAO/T-GGD-NSIAD-00-137

Soggetti

Weapons systems - Purchasing - United States - Decision making

United States Armed Forces Weapons systems Purchasing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"April 26, 2000."

Paper version available from the General Accounting Office.

Title from title screen.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968176303321

Autore

Hammersley Rachel <1974->

Titolo

The English republican tradition and eighteenth-century France : between the ancients and the moderns / / Rachel Hammersley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, c2010

ISBN

9781847797391

1847797393

9781781702345

1781702349

9781847793041

1847793045

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Studies in Early Modern European History

Studies in early modern European history

Disciplina

320.44409033

Soggetti

Republicanism - France - History - 18th century

Republicanism - Great Britain - History - 17th century

Republicanism - Great Britain - History - 18th century

France Politics and government 18th century

France Foreign relations Great Britain

Great Britain Foreign relations France

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. [208]-229) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Real Whigs and Huguenots. From English republicans to British commonwealthmen ; The Huguenot connection -- Bolingbroke and France. Viscount Bolingbroke : an atypical commonwealthman ; Bolingbroke's French associates ; A French commonwealthman : the abbé Mably -- Commonwealthmen, Wilkites and France. The commonwealth tradition and the Wilkite controversies ; The British origins of the chevalier d'Eon's patriotism ; The British origins of the baron d'Holbach's atheism ; The British origins of Jean-Paul Marat's revolutionary radicalism -- English republicans and the French Revolution. Parallel revolutions : seventeenth-century England and eighteenth-century France ; The comte de Mirabeau and the works of



John Milton and Catharine Macaulay ; The Cordeliers Club and the democratisation of English republican ideas.

Sommario/riassunto

*The English Republican Tradition and Eighteenth-Century France* offers the first full account of the role played by seventeenth and eighteenth-century English republican ideas in eighteenth-century France.Challenging some of the dominant accounts of the republican tradition, it revises conventional understandings of what republicanism meant in both Britain and France during the eighteenth-century, offering a distinctive trajectory as regards ancient and modern constructions and highlighting variety rather than homogeneity within the tradition. Hammersley thus offers a new and fascinating pers