Bøger af James Biser Whisker

Gun making in rural Pennsylvania in the 18th and 19th centuries and those who engaged in the arms making trade.

Listing of tradesmen who worked in the firearms industry in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, c.1774 to 1900

This is a listing of all known gunsmiths and gunmakers who worked in Tennessee from the earliest days before the First War for Independence through c.1900. These are chiefly the tradesmen who made the famous Tennessee long rifles and accompanying pistols.

Biographical listing of tradesmen who made the famous Bedford County long rifle, c.1770-1900; with multiple photographs of the artifacts.

Unlike the other colonies, Pennsylvania had no compulsory militia law until after the defeat of the British Army under General Braddock in 1755. The fair treatment accorded the native aborigine by William Penn combined with a general control over the tribes which inhabited Pennsylvania tribes by the English-allied Iroquois had produced relative quiet up until that point. The Quaker dominated legislature was utterly opposed to any sort of military arrangement, although it did allow Benjamin Franklin to create a private voluntary militia. Ravages on the frontier compelled the Quakers to end their opposition and a milita law was passed. The Pennsylvania colonial militia assisted in the expulsion of the French from western Pennsylvania and responded to renewed problems with the Amerindians during the Conspiracy of Pontiac, as well as other smaller engagements.

List of those tradesmen who made and repaired firearms in the State of Nebraska, c.1830-1900

Listing of the tradesmen who made and repaired firearms in Kansas

This an annotated listing of over 500 men who served as skilled tradesmen at the U S Armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, from the beginning though the destruction and abandonment in 1861. There were a number of significant figures who served as superintendents and as master armorers. Many tradesmen are shown along with their products and functions at both the main Armory and also at the rifle manufactory run by John H Hall.

Listing of those who made and/or repaired firearms in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, from c. 1790 until 1900. Photographs of many cottage industry made firearms.

Listing of gunsmiths who worked in the state of Arkansas before 1900.

This is a book of my opinions on many and various matters, with a biography and brief genealogy. Som e subjects among my opinions are royalty, movie and book preferences, college sports, academica, and gun control. There is a list of my 80+ books and monographs.

This book lists known gunsmiths and gunmakers who worked in New Hampshire from the 17th century through 1900. It was compiled from family genealogies, city and state directories, U.S. Censuses, state and local histories, state archives, and newspapers. It is illustrated with several photographs of the gunsmiths and their work.

Personal recollections, photographs, factual data regarding the family of Henry Edmund Whisker and his wife, the former Flora Alice Custer, along with materials relating to their parents and their descendants.

This is the first book listing gunsmiths and manufactories of swords and firearms in the State of South Carolina. It is fully illustrated by over 60 quality photographs of the artifacts themselves.

In the 400 years since the first known execution was carried out for treason in Virginia, American jurisdictions have debated both the appropriateness and methods of capital punishment. Over that time, courts have placed varying restrictions on its application, excluding categories of citizens (for example the insane or the underaged) and evaluating and excluding methods of execution by the U.S. Constitution's prohibition on "cruel and unusual punishment." Critics have highlighted controversial issues, including race and class, to argue against capital punishment's perceived uneven application. Others have argued that capital punishment is "cruel and unusual" in any form and should be outlawed altogether. Most recently, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, in a 5-4 bare majority, that capital punishment is not cruel and unusual for the crime of murder, provided certain factors are also present. In the same decision it held that infliction of pain of during an execution did not bar its application. States remain free to employ the death penalty or not, and if so, choose freely the method each state deems most appropriate. In Capital Punishment in American Courts, distinguished political scientists James B. Whisker and Kevin R. Spiker survey this history from a penetrating new perspective.

The just war theory is a doctrine, which is related to and at times interchangeable with such concepts as military tradition, military ethics, the doctrines of military leaders, conflict theology, ethical policy-making, and military tactics and strategy. The purpose of the just war doctrine is to attempt to guarantee that a war is morally justifiable through a series of criteria, all of which must be met for a war to be considered just. The criteria are split into two groups: "right to go to war" (jus ad bellum) and "right conduct in war" (jus in bello). The first concerns the morality of going to war, and the second the moral conduct within war. Recently there have been calls for the inclusion of a third category of just war theory known as jus post bellum that is concerned with the morality of post-war settlement and reconstruction. Just war theory postulates that war, while terrible, is made less so with the right conduct. It also assumes that war is not always the worst option. Important responsibilities, undesirable outcomes, or preventable atrocities may justify war. There is a just war tradition, a historical body of rules or agreements that have applied in various wars across the ages. The just war tradition consists primarily of the writings of various philosophers and legal experts through history. This tradition examines both their philosophical visions of war''s ethical limits and whether their thoughts have contributed to the body of conventions that have evolved to guide war and warfare.

When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and other Western positions in the Asia-Pacific World in December 1941, it was unprepared to go to war with the United States and the Western Democracies generally and even realized it could not win.

Examines the short life of the Nazi ideologist Alfred Rosenberg, one of the most overlooked individuals in the pantheon of leaders in the Third Reich. Born to German mercantile parents in the Baltic region of the Russian Empire, he was a student in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution.