age ~59
from Stanford, CA
Interest for many years in the history of the old Goliad Missions and Presidio prompted the collection of every item that could be found in regards to these old ruins. Inspired by the patriotism and knowledge of local history of an old friend, Mrs. Nellie Borland-Wood-Kreisle who had firsthand infor...
Author
Kathryn Stoner O'Connor
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
309
Publisher
Von Boeckmann-Jones
ISBN #
12
When the Texas army surprised the Mexicans at San Jacinto in 1836, the Texans were shouting: "Remember Goliad! Remember the Alamo!" Americans have continued to remember the Alamo in film and print, but Goliad, where the Mexican army massacred at least 342 Texans under the command of Colonel Fannin, ...
Author
Kathryn Stoner O'Connor
Binding
Paperback
Publisher
Eakin Pr
ISBN #
1571685405
EAN Code
9781571685407
ISBN #
9
This volume brings together a distinguished group of scholars working on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to examine in depth three waves of democratic change that took place in eleven different former Communist nations. Its essays draw important conclusions about the rise, development, an...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
360
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN #
0521133084
EAN Code
9780521133081
ISBN #
3
As demonstrated by current events in Tunisia and Egypt, oppressive regimes are rarely immune to their citizens’ desire for democratic government. Of course, desire is always tempered by reality; therefore how democratic demands are made manifest is a critical source of study for both political scien...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
456
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN #
1421408147
EAN Code
9781421408149
ISBN #
1
del Espiritu Santo de Zuniga 1721 to 1846
Author
Kathryn Stoner O'Connor
Binding
Paperback
Pages
309
Publisher
Self Published
ISBN #
8
This collection of essays is derived from a conference convened at Princeton University marking the ten-year anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Some of the best minds in post-Soviet studies focused on the task of identifying how the post-communist experience with transition has confirm...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
274
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN #
0521153557
EAN Code
9780521153553
ISBN #
11
After the fall of communism in Russia, most observers took for granted that the structures of the new democratic state would be effective agents of the popular will. This assumption was overly optimistic. Eleven respected contributors examine governance in post-Soviet Russia in comparative context, ...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
334
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN #
0742539423
EAN Code
9780742539426
ISBN #
7
In Local Heroes, Kathryn Stoner-Weiss analyzes a crucial aspect of one of the great dramas of modern times--the reconstitution of the Russian polity and economy after more than seventy years of communist rule. This is the first book to look comprehensively and systematically at Russia's democratic t...
Author
Kathryn Stoner-Weiss
Binding
Paperback
Pages
264
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN #
0691092818
EAN Code
9780691092812
ISBN #
6