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... Families of most military officers depended upon salaries rather than property, and chapter 5 argues that the petitions filed by families of those who had given their lives for the nation resulted in a significant expansion of the military pension system. Facing chronic budget shortfalls...

... After independence, Nigeria and other African countries were left with a mixed bequest from Britain. Military officers wanted to keep some parts of it and discard others. The first task of independence was to sort through it and see what was what. That process was especially important...

... Born into a military family, Francis Vinton Greene belonged to a generation of soldiers and military officers who served in the American West, Spanish-American War, and Philippine wars and brought their colonial experience to policing in the United States. As a general, Greene was an architect...

.... It manifested mainly as tribunals, which were panels of military officers and judges empowered to interpret the Supreme Military Council’s decrees. Their purpose was to adjudicate the decrees the military handed down, on everything from how much could be charged for a bag of rice to what constituted treason...

... in the face of great odds was the price they paid to make the assertiveness of their graduates possible. role models student protests leadership military officer personal growth ...

...Militarism as a Civilization After independence, Nigeria and other African countries were left with a mixed bequest from Britain. Military officers wanted to keep some parts of it and discard others. The first task of independence was to sort through it and see what was what. That process...

... in Nigeria’s already plural legal system, running perpendicular to the common law and customary courts that Nigerians already knew well. It manifested mainly as tribunals, which were panels of military officers and judges empowered to interpret the Supreme Military Council’s decrees. Their purpose...

... This chapter argues that eighteenth-century petitions to the Spanish Crown for the right to settle southern Texas and northern Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas, as well as Spanish military officers' letters exchanged during the midcentury Comanche war in northern Texas, produced...

... as part of the national debt almost all claims arising from sequestered property, whether filed by the original owners or more likely by their Chilean-born heirs. confiscation sequestration debt consolidation peace treaties émigrés Families of most military officers depended upon salaries...

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... This chapter provides a critique of the antebellum period of American history in light of the 1846 US invasion of Mexico. Investigating the censoring of violent actions by American military personnel, the chapter argues that erasures found in texts by officers and soldiers fighting in Mexico...

... This chapter follows the ways in which narratives about and archives of military service in the Yugoslav People’s Army have been accommodated to the logic of life in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars. This logic dictates flattening and remaking biographies, squeezing people into narrow boxes...

... This chapter explores the characteristics of Yugoslav military service that made it an embodiment of some of the central political ideas of Yugoslav socialism—equality, solidarity, brotherhood and unity, and internal internationalism. These characteristics are the army’s syncretic character, its...

...Anthropologists’ Articulations with the National Security State Most of the anthropologists who worked for the CIA during the 1950s had worked for the Office of Strategic Services or engaged in intelligence work at other agencies during the Second World War. During the 1950s, several...

..., the chapter argues that erasures found in texts by officers and soldiers fighting in Mexico shaped the war’s public meanings. Using critical bibliography, the essay makes several larger theoretical claims. First, the circumlocutions that structured cultural production of US military personnel must define...

... and military preparedness. It traces the patriarchal, antidemocratic implications of the New Life Movement’s social perspective, which was that of officers and managers who wanted people to act like soldiers in a national army or cogs in a giant social machine. This chapter further investigates how...

..., and they placed the blame directly on Haiti. Even after the early rebellions were repressed, however, discontent simmered. Spanish authorities steadily replaced Dominican appointees, and reclassification in the military forced many Dominican officers and soldiers out of service. Furthermore, a whole range of new...

... to independence, the 1853 consolidation of the internal debt secured the inheritances of elite families. Comprehensive regulations of military pensions, which reinstated the requirement of state approval for marriages and their restriction to higher-ranking officers, reversed expansions of eligibility from...