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Historical archaeology and the Byrd legacy: The United States Antarctic service expedition, 1939-41
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THE first official United States government expedition to Antarctica is probably the least known of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd's undertakings. The expedition was put together in 1939 as World War II raged in Europe, and it ended with a hasty evacuation on 22 March 1941. Less than a year later, the United States entered the war, and the men of the Antarctic, including Byrd himself, served in campaigns throughout the Pacific, North Africa, and Europe.
The two bases that had been estab...
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Historical archaeology and the Byrd legacy: The United States Antarctic service expedition, 1939-41
The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
; ... magazine from July 1938; a Time magazine from August 1938; and weather maps marked "U.S. Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau, U.S. Antarctic Expedition 1939-41." These maps show the Antarctic Peninsula as a series of islands and the coastline ...
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Mass exoduses: The response of the United States
The International Migration Review
; The focus of this article is on mass immigration to the United States and the country's response to various groups of immigrants. After presenting historical background dating back to the pre-Civil War era, attention is given to the Cuban and Haitian mass movements of recent years and to the
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Finding common ground: competing US and European interests. (Perspectives on the United States).
Harvard International Review
; Robert Kagan argues that the United States and Europe embrace completely different attitudes toward the use of military power. Europe, he tells us, is a self-contained world of international law and cooperation among states whose security is sustained through treaty and mediation. The United
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Conflicts Between United States Immigration Law and the General Agreement on Trade in Services: Most-Favored-Nation Obligation
Texas International Law Journal
; I. INTRODUCTION United States laws establishing qualifications for temporary, nonimmigrant classifications are potentially in violation of the United States' obligations under the World Trade Organization's (WTO)1 General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).2 These violations, if ever the subject
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Bad lawyering or ulterior motive? Why the United States lost the film case before the WTO dispute settlement panel
Law and Policy in International Business
; I. INTRODUCTION In order to convince countries such as the United States to forgo unilateral response measures to violations of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT),1 the World Trade Organization (WTO) Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU) arose out of the Uruguay Round of GATT
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Naked imperialism.(REVIEW OF THE MONTH; United States foreign relations)
Monthly Review
; The global actions of the United States since September 11, 2001, are often seen as constituting a new militarism and a new imperialism. Yet, neither militarism nor imperialism is new to the United States, which has been an expansionist power--continental, hemispheric, and global--since its
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Iraq and its implications: Sir Marrack Goulding considers the situation in Iraq in the context of the emergence of the United States as the only superpower.
New Zealand International Review
; The United States' venture in Iraq has so far achieved only one of the variable objectives which, at various times, President Bush has stated to be the purpose of his invasion of that country. The outcome of that action was and is still very uncertain and all implications are hypothetical. What
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Politics across borders: Mexico's policies toward Mexicans in the United States.
Journal of the Southwest
; President Vicente Fox's 2000 characterization of the Mexican community in the United States as heroes delighted most of his paisanos on both sides of the Rio Bravo/Rio Grande. The Mexican diaspora in the United States had finally come of age. The heroes of the Mexican diaspora had braved the
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Cognitive Images and Support for International Economic Agreements with the United States Among Mexican Citizens
Latin American Politics and Society
; ABSTRACT A 1995 survey shows that Mexican citizens depend on their cognitive and affective orientations toward the United States in forming opinions about economic agreements between the two countries. The degree to which respondents utilized general feelings toward the United States rather than
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Is the United States turning inward?
International Journal
; BROODING ABOUT WHETHER THE UNITED STATES IS TURNING FROM its postwar internationalism to a new isolationism cannot get very far without some definitions. What is internationalism? What do we mean by isolationism? To begin with what internationalism is not; it is not; in my view, romantic,
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