...James Leutze Patton: A Study in Command. By Essame Major General H. . New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons , 1974 . Pp. 280 . $8.95 . Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 524 The South Atlantic Quarterly Patton: A Study in Command. By Major General H. Essame. New York...

...Theodore Ropp Eleven Generals: Studies in American Command . By Pratt Fletcher . New York : William Sloane Associates , 1949 . Pp. xviii , 355 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 616 The South Atlantic Quarterly the pressure for money caused him to sell...

... origins, we attempt to highlight, in contrast, the radicality and innovation of the Zapatista concept of autonomy. Through an investigation of Zapatista political and territorial practices, we examine their efforts toward inverting the sovereign imperative—the relation of command obedience between...

...-in-time and intensification commands. Digital control is completed by the inclusion of a customer feedback system used to implement service standardization and further involvement in work. Fabien Brugière Connecting the Levers of Platform Control: Outsourced Labor and Algorithmic Management: A Transurban...

...Nicholas De Genova An anxious preoccupation with rising “populism” on an effectively global scale commands that critical scholarship reflect on the status of populism as an analytical category. The vexed ambivalence around the relation between democracy and “the people” presents a fundamental...

...Matteo Mandarini; Alberto Toscano Planning is widely perceived as an approach to economic life that both subordinates decisions about production and distribution to a supposedly objective Science and as an illegitimate subjection of economic laws to a commanding political Will. This article...

... waxed hot, words ceased to suffice and blows followed. Whether this was unintentional or deliberate matters not, it suited the chau­ vinistic purposes of Charles X., and forthwith General Bourmont with 30,000 men and 116 guns was landed on the Algerine coast. The French commanders in Algeria from...

... A Calendar of Confederate Papers, with a bibliography of some Confederate imprints, for the Confederate Museum in Richmond. Even then he was stressing the importance of military records, maps and topography, the history of particular commands, and the importance of an intimate acquaintance...

... promotions to lieutenant-generalcies actually unfitted the various appointees for successful command in Algeria. Braddock s humiliating defeat by the American Indians is the classic illustration that men trained in the military science of European warfare are incapable of adjusting themselves to the vastly...

.... On board were some 30,000 Federal troops known as the Army of the James, under the command ot General Benjamin F. Butler. Their destination was the junction of the James and Appomattox Rivers. The movement, long contemplated, was intended to be in the nature of a surprise to the Confederates. It proved...

... Congress, that the convention of North Carolina station General Moore, with the regular troops under his command, in such parts of that State or the State of South Carolina, where he would be in a position to render immediate assistance to South Carolina, and that the convention embody at the continental...

... relies for technical military advice on the field commanders whom he appoints. When, therefore, the President removes a previously successful commanding general in the middle of a campaign his position is em­ barrassing at best. When the general is the chosen love of the opposition party and the arts...

... they had received their bounty money. The militia around Edenton took to the woods and refused to assemble. At the urgent request of Lincoln, Washington detached the Maryland and Delaware troops under the command of DeKalb from his own army and sent them South. They did not reach North Carolina until June...

... informative than Stimson s On Active Service and as dull as Arnold s Global Mission, the previous low-water mark of ghostwritten high command memoirs. Whitehill and King use the atrociously impersonal Bundy-Stimson style During the stay in Cairo, King observed his sixty-fifth birthday on 23 Novemberto record...

... of the von Manstein plan as it had been drafted by the German High Command. Rather, the rescue was a fluke, whose exact cause is not easy to determine. As the German right flank (Army Group B under von Bock) smashed into Holland and Belgium while the center (Army Group A under von Rundstedt) attacked...

... and recuperating his veteran com­ bat units for another campaign of penetration. South Carolina was to be taught that there was a certain amount of truth in the Union commander s much quoted motto. January 18, 1865, found all in readiness, and the following day saw the departure of the last brigade...

.... Pashukanis’s position in relation to much of the legal tradition, as well as to much of the critique of law that in any case is connected reverts back to this tradition, is characterized very clearly by a definite relativization of the role of legal coercion, of command, and of the State. As Antonio...

.... Archer Jones has presented a detailed analysis of the several Confederate attempts during the first Book Reviews 413 two years of the war to bring administrative order and unity of command into the large and strategically significant western department. In thus writing about strategy in the west, he has...

... upon the Light Book Reviews 635 Division and its fiery leader evidence, perhaps, of the conspicuous part played by Hill and his men in better days. One of the most dynamic of Lee s lieutenants, Hill was beyond doubt a gifted divisional commander. Aggressive, intelligent, a skilled tactician, he...

.... The task force steamed on, dark and silent, toward the Philippines. II The crew of the Biloxi called her the Busy Bee, and for a time her call name on the voice radio of the task force was Gad­ about. Her chief engineer, genial Commander Robert H. Kerr, U.S.N., of Annapolis, Maryland, would tell you...