On 4th July 1776, American declared their indepenedence after almost 200 years of British Rule. This key date in the American Revolution changed the course of history. Today the Declaration of American Independence is a treasured document & the 4th July is the most important national holiday & celebration in the USA. ...

American Independent cinema has been an important creative & cultural media entity for the past fifteen years. This title questions the supposed autonomy of this cinema & asks if independent film can possibly survive in the face of the mass-production & profit of Hollywood. ...

Discusses enactment of declarations of war & authorizations for the use of force & analyzes their legal effects under international & domestic law. This book

Includes:: an extensive listing & summary of the statutes that are triggered by a declaration of war, a declaration of national emergency, and/or the existence of a state of war.

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A cryptic phone call forces ex-MI6 agent Andrew Hale to confront the nightmare that has haunted his adult life: an ultra-secret wartime operation, codenamed Declare. Operation Declare took Hale from Nazi-occupied Paris to the ruins of post-war Berlin & the trackless wastes of the Arabian desert. ...

A noteworthy development in recent history has been the disappearance of formal declarations of war. Using primary sources, this book examines the history of declaring war in the early modern era up to the writing of the US Constitution to identify the influence of early modern history on the framing of the Constitution. ...

Presents a collection of some top-secret documents
- taken from museum & archive collections around the world. Chapters in this
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Chris Mullin's bestselling "A View From the Foothills" provided a riveting insider's account of life as a junior minister. Laying bare the personalities, pyrotechnics & political intrigues of the Blair years, it was described as ' Yes Minister meets Alan Clark'. Funny & self-deprecating, the new diaries run from his sacking by Blair as a minister after the 2005 elections to Election Day 2010 as he prepares to step down after 23 years as an MP wryly observing, 'they say failed politicians make the best diarists, in which case I am in with a chance'. ...