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

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: 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. Condition: 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.".…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In the long arc of history, empires do not fall in a single day. The Dismantling of America is a profound, unflinching investigation into the slow, inexorable unravelling of the United States as a global superpower. Author James E. Isham argues that American decline is not merely a political failure but a systemic collapse, accelerated by imperial overreach, deep social polarisation, and the hollowing out of democratic norms.Centring on the 2026 war against Iran as a "catalyst" for this acceleration, Isham traces the anatomy of American decline across diplomatic, economic, and cultural registers. The book examines the "spectacle of empty power"-a political system paralysed by bipartisan strife and captured by special interests-and the "corrosion" of the American Dream itself, now beset by profound alienation and internal division.Isham avoids prophecy and partisan rhetoric, offering instead a sober "exercise in mourning" and a meditation on what has been lost. By confronting the brutal reality of an "edifice that cracks beyond repair", this work challenges readers to discard the myths of exceptionalism and unlimited power. It asks a difficult, necessary question: can a nation, in its hour of greatest trial, summon the courage to let go of what it has been to become what it must be?Neither a call for restoration nor a work of despair, The Dismantling of America is an urgent demand for a new, wiser purpose. It is a vital, essential guide for understanding the shifting contours of our post-American world. An unflinching look at the systemic collapse of a superpower. Tracing the cracks in a nation's foundation, this work is a sober meditation on the end of an era and a search for a new purpose in a post-hegemonic world. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: 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.…

LeatherBound. Condition: 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.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In the long arc of history, empires do not fall in a single day. The Dismantling of America is a profound, unflinching investigation into the slow, inexorable unravelling of the United States as a global superpower. Author James E. Isham argues that American decline is not merely a political failure but a systemic collapse, accelerated by imperial overreach, deep social polarisation, and the hollowing out of democratic norms.Centring on the 2026 war against Iran as a "catalyst" for this acceleration, Isham traces the anatomy of American decline across diplomatic, economic, and cultural registers. The book examines the "spectacle of empty power"-a political system paralysed by bipartisan strife and captured by special interests-and the "corrosion" of the American Dream itself, now beset by profound alienation and internal division.Isham avoids prophecy and partisan rhetoric, offering instead a sober "exercise in mourning" and a meditation on what has been lost. By confronting the brutal reality of an "edifice that cracks beyond repair", this work challenges readers to discard the myths of exceptionalism and unlimited power. It asks a difficult, necessary question: can a nation, in its hour of greatest trial, summon the courage to let go of what it has been to become what it must be?Neither a call for restoration nor a work of despair, The Dismantling of America is an urgent demand for a new, wiser purpose. It is a vital, essential guide for understanding the shifting contours of our post-American world. An unflinching look at the systemic collapse of a superpower. Tracing the cracks in a nation's foundation, this work is a sober meditation on the end of an era and a search for a new purpose in a post-hegemonic world. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In the long arc of history, empires do not fall in a single day. The Dismantling of America is a profound, unflinching investigation into the slow, inexorable unravelling of the United States as a global superpower. Author James E. Isham argues that American decline is not merely a political failure but a systemic collapse, accelerated by imperial overreach, deep social polarisation, and the hollowing out of democratic norms.Centring on the 2026 war against Iran as a "catalyst" for this acceleration, Isham traces the anatomy of American decline across diplomatic, economic, and cultural registers. The book examines the "spectacle of empty power"-a political system paralysed by bipartisan strife and captured by special interests-and the "corrosion" of the American Dream itself, now beset by profound alienation and internal division.Isham avoids prophecy and partisan rhetoric, offering instead a sober "exercise in mourning" and a meditation on what has been lost. By confronting the brutal reality of an "edifice that cracks beyond repair", this work challenges readers to discard the myths of exceptionalism and unlimited power. It asks a difficult, necessary question: can a nation, in its hour of greatest trial, summon the courage to let go of what it has been to become what it must be?Neither a call for restoration nor a work of despair, The Dismantling of America is an urgent demand for a new, wiser purpose. It is a vital, essential guide for understanding the shifting contours of our post-American world. An unflinching look at the systemic collapse of a superpower. Tracing the cracks in a nation's foundation, this work is a sober meditation on the end of an era and a search for a new purpose in a post-hegemonic world. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: 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 our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: 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 our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The Hidden Grand Strategy offers a timely, analytically rich examination of US grand strategy from the end of the Cold War to the present era of renewed great-power competition. Positioned at the intersection of theory and practice, the book is designed for academic, policy, and general audiences interested in geopolitics, security studies, and contemporary history.Isham's central contribution is to connect evolving strategic paradigms with concrete policy outcomes. He shows how seemingly abstract concepts-containment, unipolarity, the 'war on terror,' and great-power competition-have structured interagency decision-making and the integrated use of diplomatic, military, economic, and information instruments of power.Key themes include:Continuity and change in US strategy: how long-standing strategic traditions adapt to shifting geopolitical contexts and technological change while preserving core interests.Strategic narratives: the distinction between official, publicly stated objectives and tacit, often less visible goals that shape US conduct toward Russia and China.Institutional memory and foresight: how accumulated experience within the national security bureaucracy influences perceptions of new threats and opportunities.The management of rivalry: how post¿Cold¿War unipolarity gave way to a more contested order, in which Washington blends cooperation, competition, and coercion in dealing with Moscow and Beijing.For booksellers and librarians, this title will sit comfortably alongside works by John Lewis Gaddis, Hal Brands, and other leading scholars of grand strategy. It is suitable for:Upper¿level undergraduate and postgraduate courses in international relations, security and strategic studiesPolicy professionals and think¿tank researchersJournalists and informed general readers seeking a structured understanding of US-Russia-China dynamicsWritten in accessible prose yet grounded in serious scholarship, The Hidden Grand Strategy provides a valuable resource for collections on American foreign policy, global security, and twenty-first-century geopolitics.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In the long arc of history, empires do not fall in a single day. The Dismantling of America is a profound, unflinching investigation into the slow, inexorable unravelling of the United States as a global superpower. Author James E. Isham argues that American decline is not merely a political failure but a systemic collapse, accelerated by imperial overreach, deep social polarisation, and the hollowing out of democratic norms.Centring on the 2026 war against Iran as a 'catalyst' for this acceleration, Isham traces the anatomy of American decline across diplomatic, economic, and cultural registers. The book examines the 'spectacle of empty power'-a political system paralysed by bipartisan strife and captured by special interests-and the 'corrosion' of the American Dream itself, now beset by profound alienation and internal division.Isham avoids prophecy and partisan rhetoric, offering instead a sober 'exercise in mourning' and a meditation on what has been lost. By confronting the brutal reality of an 'edifice that cracks beyond repair', this work challenges readers to discard the myths of exceptionalism and unlimited power. It asks a difficult, necessary question: can a nation, in its hour of greatest trial, summon the courage to let go of what it has been to become what it must be Neither a call for restoration nor a work of despair, The Dismantling of America is an urgent demand for a new, wiser purpose. It is a vital, essential guide for understanding the shifting contours of our post-American world.…