Jack Greene: 13 books
Zones of Control
Perspectives on Wargaming
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts.
Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...
by Jack Greene
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
The small village of Horton on the Mort was a peaceful one, until they came. First they preyed on small animals, then pets and then they set their hungry eyes on humans. The mutated, black-furred vermin had a hunger for human flesh that could not be sated, and they were breeding at an alarming rate. Can the people of Horton on the Mort survive the onslaught?
by Jack Greene
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
When Sarah moved into a new flat to start her life over, she had no idea her troubles had just begun. The upstairs neighbours seemed friendly at first, but then the noises start, strange bangs and crashes that follow Sarah from room to room. Then things start moving around in her home, and her friends...
by Jack Greene
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
When a werewolf runs rampant through the local streets, killing people in the most gruesome way, it's up to Pete Silver to investigate and destroy this menace to vampiric society. The problem is, Pete isn't a vampire or a werewolf, but a hybrid of the two, and he's just begun his immortal...
The Black Prince And The Sea Devils
The Story Of Valerio Borghese And The Elite Units Of The Decima Mas
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
At the beginning of World War II, Prince Junio Valerio Borghese, dashing Italian nobleman, assembled the famous Decima MAS naval unit-the first modern naval commando squad. Borghese's "frogmen" were trained to fight undercover and underwater with small submarines and assault boats armed...
Hitler Strikes North
The Nazi Invasion of Norway and Denmark, 9 April 1940
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
A detailed account of Germany’s groundbreaking Operation Weserübung, the first three dimensional—land, sea, air—strategic invasion in history.
The German invasion of Denmark and Norway in April 1940 brought a sudden and shocking end to the “Phoney War” in the West. In a single day, multiple...
Creating the British Atlantic
Essays on Transplantation, Adaptation, and Continuity
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Set mostly within an expansive British imperial and transatlantic framework, this new selection of writings from the renowned historian Jack P. Greene draws on themes he has been developing throughout his distinguished career. In these essays Greene explores the efforts to impose Old World institutions,...
Pursuits of Happiness
The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
In this book, Jack Greene reinterprets the meaning of American social development. Synthesizing literature of the previous two decades on the process of social development and the formation of American culture, he challenges the central assumptions that have traditionally been used to analyze colonial...
The Intellectual Construction of America
Exceptionalism and Identity From 1492 to 1800
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Jack Greene explores the changing definitions of America from the time of Europe's first contact with the New World through the establishment of the American republic. Challenging historians who have argued that colonial American societies differed little from those of early modern Europe, he shows...
The Quest for Power
The Lower Houses of Assembly in the Southern Royal Colonies, 1689-1776
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In this study, Greene describes the rise of the lower houses in the four southern royal colonies--Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia--in the period between the Glorious Revolution and the American War for Independence. It assesses the consequences of the success of the lower houses,...
by Jack P. Greene
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Using the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America created a problem of constitutional organization. The failure to resolve the resulting tensions led to the thirteen continental colonies seceding from the empire in 1776....
NetBeans: The Definitive Guide
Developing, Debugging, and Deploying Java Code
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2002
As the Java programming language has increased in both functionality and complexity, developers have demanded more of their program editors. Gone are the days when a simple visual editor is sufficient for even small programming projects. While there are numerous IDEs available today for use by Java...
by Jack P. Greene
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
This volume comprehensively examines how metropolitan Britons spoke and wrote about the British Empire during the short eighteenth century, from about 1730 to 1790. The work argues that following several decades of largely uncritical celebration of the empire as a vibrant commercial entity that had...