Political style of the Guatemalan military elite

1969 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 63-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry L. Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Military Elite

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
James Pickett
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Social Group ◽  
The State ◽  
High Culture ◽  
Independent Source ◽  
Military Elite ◽  
Influential Individuals ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the Islamic scholars of Bukhara during the long nineteenth century. Islamic scholars were among the most influential individuals in their society, and that power rested on their mastery of diverse forms of knowledge rather than birthright. Instead of imagining those varied competencies and practices as embodied by separate professions, this book conceptualizes them as distinct practices and disciplines mastered by a single milieu. Instead of imagining stratified castes of “ulama” as against “sufis” as against “poets,” there is a unified social group of multitalented polymaths selectively performing sharia, asceticism, and poetry as circumstances dictated. These polymaths of Islam were the custodians of the only form of institutionalized high culture on offer in Central Asia. Their authoritative command over many different forms of knowledge — from medicine to law to epistolography and beyond — allowed them to accumulate substantial power and to establish enduring family dynasties. The Turkic military elite relied on these scholars to administer the state, but the ulama possessed an independent source of authority rooted in learning, which created tension between these two elite groups with profound ramifications for the region's history.

“We Do Not Exclude a Constitutional Monarch Under the Present Dynasty”

Unconditional ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 38-70
Author(s):  
Marc Gallicchio
Keyword(s):  
Military Elite ◽  
The U.S

The second chapter picks up in Okinawa, where the last chapter ended, in June 1945, when Japanese forces began an orderly retreat from the Shuri line to the Kiyan Peninsula, located at the southernmost part of Okinawa. Thereafter began a plan within the Japanese political and military elite to end the war. The initial hope was for Japan’s withdrawal from the European colonies it had conquered, providing they were granted their independence. Japan would also disarm itself and accept limits imposed on its defense establishment. There would be no occupation of the homeland. The chapter argues that this was a daring plan. The chapter presents the U.S. reaction to this in terms of how those in power wanted the Japanese surrender to be shaped.

The Glorious Coup

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ozan O. Varol
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Military Officers ◽  
Glorious Revolution ◽  
Coup D'etat ◽  
Military Elite ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Glorious Revolution ◽  
The Church ◽  
Constitutional Monarchy

This chapter discusses a 1688 conspiracy cultivated by military officers that culminated in a coup d’état against England’s King James II, popularly known as the Glorious Revolution. The soldiers who deserted James II joined the invading Dutch forces of William of Orange to topple the king. The coup was largely the product of a Protestant crisis of conscience among those of England’s military elite who remained faithful to the Church of England in the face of an absolutist Catholic King James II. The coup brought enduring changes to the social, religious, and political fabric of England, as its empire transitioned from absolute to constitutional monarchy.

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