isham james e (71 resultados)

Paperback or Softback. Condición: New. The Hidden Grand Strategy: How America Engineers Wars To Weaken Russia And China. Book.

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Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. No Dust Jacket. Binding Spotted And Slightly Rubbed.

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Paperback or Softback. Condición: New. La grande strat�gie cach�e: Comment les �tats-Unis orchestrent des guerres pour affaiblir la Russie et la Chine. Book.

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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. No. 356 of 550 copies. Original publisher's red cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Several leaves unopened. 7" x 9 3/4." Pages cv, [5], 6-352, complete. Nineteen black-and-white illustrations, complete. List of Illustrations and Introduction in front. Appendix A: James Isham's Journal, 1746-47; Appendix B: Indian; Appendix C: Biographical; and Index in back. Fifteen additional pages in back show the names of Champlain Society officers and members, subscribing libraries, and other Champlain Society publications. Former owner's black-and-white bookplate tipped in on front pastedown: "Vigilans et Avdax; Sir James Dunn, Bart., Q.C., LL.D., 1874-1956." Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for light age toning, slight wear to extremities, and the former owner's bookplate. Covers are very clean and intact overall except for a small mark on back, slight residue on spine, and slight wear to extremities. A Very Good copy. This is No. XII in the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) Series, a subset in The Publications of the Champlain Society series. Edited with an Introduction by E. E. Rich who was assisted by A. M. Johnson. This volume contains the transcription of an autobiographical account by James Isham (1716-1761), an Anglo-Canadian chief factor (master) who worked for Hudson's Bay Company at York Fort and Fort Prince of Wales. Isham provides one of the most comprehensive accounts of the Canadian frontier and HBC's activities during the eighteenth century. In 1732, Isham was sent to York Fort when he was 16 years old to work as a clerk or bookkeeper. As a clerk, he was commended for his sobriety and upstanding character by the master of the fort and eventually worked his way up to chief factor himself. Isham's account is filled with a wealth of information about various aspects of Canadian frontier life. He also drew a few sketches to accompany his writings. His account begins with a brief dictionary of English words and phrases and their phonetic translations in Cree. According to Rich, this period in Canadian history was marked by relatively amicable relations between European traders and Indigenous communities based on transactional peace. Isham describes many of the cultural customs of the Cree and other Indigenous tribes. He also describes several Canadian species of birds and other animals. There is also brief description of beaver-hunting methods. Notably, Isham was in charge of both Fort Prince of Wales and York Factory in two separate occasions where exploratory ships trying to find the Northwest Passage had to overwinter at the forts. Each time, this caused great contention between Isham and the captains of the ships. In the latter instance, at York Factory, the crew of one of the ships published an account critical of Isham and HBC. Appended to Isham's main account is his rebuttal to the crew's assertions they made against him and HBC in Henry Ellis's A Voyage to Hudsons Bay in the Dobbs Galley. Front colophon: "Five Hundred and Fifty Copies of this Volume have been printed. Fifty are reserved for Editorial purposes. The remaining Five Hundred are supplied only to Members of the Society and to Subscribing Libraries. This copy is No. 356.".

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. Limited and numbered this being number 412. Book.

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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 352 pp. with nineteen illustrations, an index, and three appendices, including Isham's journal entries from 1746-1747; his observations on Indigenous peoples,; biographical information about Isham. Navy cloth binding is unfaded, and the gilt lettering on the spine is crisp. Cloth at upper spine is slightly folded down, and there are a couple of small spots on front and back covers. In unread condition, as many pages have not even been cut open. "James Isham began his career with the Hudson's Bay Company in 1732 and served at the bay continuously, with brief visits to England in 1737, 1745, 1748, and 1758, until his death. Although his English style, grammar, and spelling are always eccentric, his writings stand out as essential source-material for any approach to the fur trade of the 18th century, for an understanding of the problems of the HBC as it faced challenge and opposition, and for a study of the flora and fauna of Rupert's Land. Isham was at once a skilled and understanding trader, a perceptive planner and strategist, and a conscientious and observant natural historian." - Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Oversized book may require additional shipping.

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The Dismantling of America is a stark, eloquent meditation on a superpower at the edge. Moving from the corrosion of democratic norms to the shockwaves of foreign policy overreach, James E. Isham traces the invisible threads binding domestic fracture to global realignment. Through vivid argument and sweeping synthesis, the book contends that America's crisis is not a single event but an accelerating convergence: permanent war and imperial overstretch, economic precarity and cultural exhaustion, broken alliances abroad and broken trust at home.From the cataclysmic presidency that normalised norm-breaking to the 2026 war that exposed the vulnerability of forward bases and the fragility of credibility, Isham shows how spectacle replaced substance and how power, unmoored from purpose, became empty theatre. Yet this is not a screed. It is a reckoning-and an invitation. Across chapters on social dissolution, media illusion, bipartisan decay, and the emergence of a multipolar world, the author asks what remains worth saving and how a nation might trade supremacy for wisdom and dominance for dignity.Combining political theory and contemporary reportage, The Dismantling of America engages Kennedy, Johnson, Nye, Mearsheimer, Bacevich, and others to illuminate the road from hegemony to humility. Its conclusion is bracing: reform is still possible, but only if America abandons comforting myths, confronts the costs of its choices, and rebuilds legitimacy from the inside out.For readers of Bacevich, Piketty, Zakaria, and Snyder, this book offers a powerful framework to understand the post-American moment - and a humane compass for what could come after the fall.Remarkably clear-eyed and unsentimental, The Dismantling of America is a field guide to a vanishing order and a manifesto for renewal grounded not in nostalgia but in reality. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. What if America's most decisive wars were not accidents of history but the outcome of a long, evolving grand strategy?In The Hidden Grand Strategy: How America Engineers Wars To Weaken Russia And China, James E. Isham dissects the ideas, doctrines, and power struggles that have shaped US statecraft from the end of the Cold War to today's return of great-power rivalry. Drawing on cutting-edge scholarship in strategic studies and international relations, Isham reveals how Washington's public rhetoric about democracy, human rights, and a "rules-based order" is often only one layer of a far more complex strategic narrative. At the core of the book is a stark claim: behind shifting slogans and changing enemies lies a persistent logic of managing, containing, and gradually weakening rival centers of power-above all Russia and China-through economic pressure, technological competition, proxy conflicts, and information warfare. Isham traces how grand strategy is made-across agencies, think tanks, and military commands-and how abstract concepts are translated into real-world policies, wars, and crises.Isham distinguishes between America's officially stated objectives and its tacit geopolitical aims, showing how gaps between the two generate mistrust, fuel arms races, and destabilize entire regions. By unpacking the "strategic narratives" that justify intervention abroad and military build-up at home, he exposes the intellectual battles inside the US foreign policy establishment between partisans of continuity and advocates of radical change.Accessible yet rigorous, this book is indispensable for: Students and scholars of geopolitics, security, and foreign policyJournalists and analysts seeking to decode US actions toward Moscow and BeijingPolicymakers and citizens who want to understand the real stakes behind today's geopolitical flashpointsThe Hidden Grand Strategy offers a powerful framework for reading the next crisis before it erupts-and for seeing how today's conflicts fit into a much larger strategic design. --- This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Une analyse definitive de la grande strategie americaine a l'ere de la rivalite entre les grandes puissancesAlors que les tensions mondiales s'intensifient et que la rivalite entre les grandes puissances s'exacerbe, La grande strategie cachee: comment les Etats-Unis orchestrent des guerres pour affaiblir la Russie et la Chine propose une analyse faisant autorite des cadres strategiques qui guident la politique etrangere americaine. L'auteur James E. Isham livre une analyse erudite mais accessible qui fait le pont entre la theorie academique et la mise en oeuvre concrete des politiques.Cet ouvrage minutieusement documente explore la maniere dont la rationalite strategique sous-tend les cadres centraux a l'analyse et a la conduite de la politique mondiale. Isham demontre que les paradigmes strategiques sont bien plus que des abstractions academiques: ils representent des ancrages ideologiques ayant des consequences tangibles sur la prise de decision au plus haut niveau du gouvernement. La these centrale du livre revele une tension persistante entre la vision publiquement exprimee par les Etats-Unis d'un leadership mondial dedie aux principes democratiques et les facteurs politiques, economiques et securitaires complexes qui determinent en realite le comportement des Etats.A travers une analyse historique exhaustive, l'auteur retrace l'evolution strategique depuis la doctrine de l'endiguement jusqu'au moment unipolaire de l'apres-guerre froide, en passant par le retour contemporain a la rivalite geopolitique, mettant en avant la Chine et la Russie comme principaux concurrents de l'hegemonie americaine. Cette trajectoire met en lumiere la maniere dont les hommes d'Etat americains reevaluent regulierement les objectifs de politique etrangere a la lumiere de l'evolution des exigences en matiere de securite nationale.Le cadre analytique du livre examine: La fusion des paradigmes strategiques dans le discours politique et ses implications pratiquesLa collaboration interinstitutionnelle et la coordination des multiples instruments du pouvoir nationalL'application elastique des concepts strategiques dans les contextes nationaux et transnationauxLes defis contemporains, notamment les menaces asymetriques, la concurrence technologique et les questions transnationales.Isham soutient de maniere convaincante que la comprehension de la double facette des discours strategiques americains - objectifs explicites et implicites - est essentielle pour les praticiens de la politique, les analystes et les acteurs etrangers qui cherchent a comprendre le comportement des Etats-Unis en matiere de politique etrangere et ses effets residuels. La capacite a operer efficacement sur la scene internationale necessite des reponses flexibles et nuancees, fondees sur une evaluation sophistiquee des menaces en constante evolution.Publie par Global East-West (GEW), cet ouvrage represente une contribution significative a la litterature sur les etudes strategiques, offrant aux lecteurs la profondeur analytique necessaire pour naviguer dans les relations internationales contemporaines. L'ouvrage revele comment les Etats-Unis ont deliberement orchestre des conflits afin d'affaiblir la Russie et la Chine, a travers des etudes de cas sur l'Ukraine et l'Asie de l'Est. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

LeatherBound. Condición: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1876 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 373 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 373.

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Une analyse definitive de la grande strategie americaine a l'ere de la rivalite entre les grandes puissancesAlors que les tensions mondiales s'intensifient et que la rivalite entre les grandes puissances s'exacerbe, La grande strategie cachee: comment les Etats-Unis orchestrent des guerres pour affaiblir la Russie et la Chine propose une analyse faisant autorite des cadres strategiques qui guident la politique etrangere americaine. L'auteur James E. Isham livre une analyse erudite mais accessible qui fait le pont entre la theorie academique et la mise en oeuvre concrete des politiques.Cet ouvrage minutieusement documente explore la maniere dont la rationalite strategique sous-tend les cadres centraux a l'analyse et a la conduite de la politique mondiale. Isham demontre que les paradigmes strategiques sont bien plus que des abstractions academiques: ils representent des ancrages ideologiques ayant des consequences tangibles sur la prise de decision au plus haut niveau du gouvernement. La these centrale du livre revele une tension persistante entre la vision publiquement exprimee par les Etats-Unis d'un leadership mondial dedie aux principes democratiques et les facteurs politiques, economiques et securitaires complexes qui determinent en realite le comportement des Etats.A travers une analyse historique exhaustive, l'auteur retrace l'evolution strategique depuis la doctrine de l'endiguement jusqu'au moment unipolaire de l'apres-guerre froide, en passant par le retour contemporain a la rivalite geopolitique, mettant en avant la Chine et la Russie comme principaux concurrents de l'hegemonie americaine. Cette trajectoire met en lumiere la maniere dont les hommes d'Etat americains reevaluent regulierement les objectifs de politique etrangere a la lumiere de l'evolution des exigences en matiere de securite nationale.Le cadre analytique du livre examine: La fusion des paradigmes strategiques dans le discours politique et ses implications pratiquesLa collaboration interinstitutionnelle et la coordination des multiples instruments du pouvoir nationalL'application elastique des concepts strategiques dans les contextes nationaux et transnationauxLes defis contemporains, notamment les menaces asymetriques, la concurrence technologique et les questions transnationales.Isham soutient de maniere convaincante que la comprehension de la double facette des discours strategiques americains - objectifs explicites et implicites - est essentielle pour les praticiens de la politique, les analystes et les acteurs etrangers qui cherchent a comprendre le comportement des Etats-Unis en matiere de politique etrangere et ses effets residuels. La capacite a operer efficacement sur la scene internationale necessite des reponses flexibles et nuancees, fondees sur une evaluation sophistiquee des menaces en constante evolution.Publie par Global East-West (GEW), cet ouvrage represente une contribution significative a la litterature sur les etudes strategiques, offrant aux lecteurs la profondeur analytique necessaire pour naviguer dans les relations internationales contemporaines. L'ouvrage revele comment les Etats-Unis ont deliberement orchestre des conflits afin d'affaiblir la Russie et la Chine, a travers des etudes de cas sur l'Ukraine et l'Asie de l'Est. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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