Opposition to War : An Encyclopedia of U.S. Peace and Antiwar Movements [2 Volumes]
Mitchell K. Hall;Mitchell K. Hall
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How have Americans sought peaceful, rather than destructive, solutions to domestic and...
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Opposition to War : An Encyclopedia of U.S. Peace and Antiwar Movements [2 Volumes]
2018
How have Americans sought peaceful, rather than destructive, solutions to domestic and world conflict? This two-volume set documents peace and antiwar movements in the United States from the colonial era to the present.Although national leaders often claim to be fighting to achieve peace , the real peace seekers struggle against enormous resistance to their message and have often faced persecution for their efforts. Despite a well-established pattern of being involved in wars , the United States also has a long tradition of citizens who made extensive efforts to build and maintain peaceful societies and prevent the destructive human and material costs of war . Unarmed activists have most consistently upheld American values at home .Opposition to War : An Encyclopedia of U.S. Peace and Antiwar Movements investigates this historical tradition of resistance to involvement in armed conflict—an especially important and relevant topic today as the nation has been mired in numerous military conflicts throughout most of the current century. The book examines a largely misunderstood and underappreciated minority of Americans who have committed themselves to finding peaceful resolutions to domestic and international conflicts—individuals who have proposed and conducted an array of practical and creative methods for peaceful change, from the transformation of individual behavior to the development of international governing and legal systems, for more than 250 years. Readers will learn how individuals working alone or organized into societies of various size have steadfastly campaigned to stop war , end the arms race, eliminate the underlying causes of war , and defend the civil liberties of Americans when wartime nationalism most threatens them.
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Peace movements--United States--Encyclopedias - Pacifists--United States--EncyclopediasContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
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The American Girl Goes to War : Women and National Identity in U.S. Silent Film
Liz Clarke;Liz Clarke
During the 1910s, films about war often featured a female protagonist. The films portr...
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The American Girl Goes to War : Women and National Identity in U.S. Silent Film
2022
During the 1910s, films about war often featured a female protagonist. The films portrayed women as spies, cross-dressing soldiers, and athletic defenders of their homes —roles typically reserved for men and that contradicted gendered-expectations of home -front women waiting for their husbands, sons, and brothers to return from battle. The representation of American martial spirit—particularly in the form of heroines—has a rich history in film in the years just prior to the American entry into World War I. The American Girl Goes to War demonstrates the predominance of heroic female characters in in early narrative films about war from 1908 to 1919. American Girls were filled with the military spirit of their forefathers and became one of the major ways that American women's changing political involvement, independence, and active natures were contained by and subsumed into pre-existing American ideologies.
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Heroines in motion pictures--History--20th century - Sex role in motion pictures--History--20th century - Silent films--United States--History--20th century - Nationalism--United States--History--20th century - War films--United States--History and criticism - Women in motion pictures--History--20th century - Women and war--United States--History--20th centuryContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Three Not-So-Ordinary Joes : A Plantation Newspaperman, a Printer’s Devil, an English Wit, and the Founding of Southern Literature
Julie Hedgepeth Williams;Julie Hedgepeth Williams
One of the more eccentric figures in the antebellum South was Joseph Addison Turner, b...
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Three Not-So-Ordinary Joes : A Plantation Newspaperman, a Printer’s Devil, an English Wit, and the Founding of Southern Literature
2018
One of the more eccentric figures in the antebellum South was Joseph Addison Turner, born to the plantation and trained to run one. All he really wanted to do, though, was to be a famous writer—and to be the founder of Southern literature. He tried and failed and tried and failed at publishing magazines, poems, books, articles, journals, all while halfheartedly running a plantation. When the Civil War broke out, he no longer had access to New York publishers, and in his frustration it dawned on him that he could throw a newspaper press into an outbuilding on his Georgia plantation. Furthermore, his newspaper would be modeled on The Spectator, the literary newspaper of the early 1700s by Joseph Addison, for whom Turner was named. The Spectator in its day, and 150 years later in Turner's day, was considered high literature. Turner carefully copied Addison's style and philosophy—and it worked! His newspaper, The Countryman—the only newspaper ever published on a plantation—was one of the most widely read in the Confederacy. Following Addison's lead, Turner suggested that slaves should be treated well, lauded the contributions of women, and featured humorous copy. And, of course, his paper celebrated Southern culture and creativity. As Turner urged in The Countryman, the South could never be a great nation if all it did was fight. It needed art—it needed literature! And he, J. A. Turner himself, would lead the way.The Civil War , however, didn't go as Turner had hoped. Sherman's army marched through and took Turner's world with it. His newspaper collapsed. He died a few years after the war ended, thinking he had failed to start Southern literature.However, he was wrong. The Countryman's teenage printer's devil was Joel Chandler Harris , who grew up to write the first wildly popular Southern literature, the Uncle Remus tales . Turner had taken in the illegitimate, ill-educated Harris and had turned him into a writer. And while Harris worked for the plantation newspaper, he joined Turner's children at dusk in the slave cabins, listening to the fantastical animal stories the Negroes told. Young Harris recognized the tales 'subversive theme of the downtrodden outwitting the powerful. Years later as a newspaperman, he was asked to write a column in the Negro dialect, and he reached back to his days at The Countryman for the slaves'narratives. The stories enthralled readers in the South—but also in the North, particularly Theodore Roosevelt. The Uncle Remus stories were hailed as the reconciler between North and South, and they directly influenced Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, and Beatrix Potter. Most importantly, Uncle Remus knocked New England off its perch as the focus of American belles-lettres and made Southern literature the primary national focus.So, ultimately, Joseph Addison Turner really did found Southern literature—with the help of two other not-so-ordinary Joes, Joseph Addison and Joel Chandler Harris . Julie Hedgepeth Williams tells their story.
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Newspaper publishing--United States--History--19th century - Authors, English--18th century--Influence - American literature--Southern States--History and criticism - Authors, American--19th century--History and criticismContent provider:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
The Northern Home Front During the Civil War
Paul A. Cimbala;Randall M. Miller;Paul A. Cimbala;Randall M. Miller
This book comprehensively covers the wide geographical range of the northern home fron...
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The Northern Home Front During the Civil War
2017
This book comprehensively covers the wide geographical range of the northern home fronts during the Civil War , emphasizing the diverse ways people interpreted, responded to, and adapted to war by their ideas, interests, and actions.The Northern Home Front during the Civil War provides the first extensive treatment of the northern home front mobilizing for war in two decades. It collates a vast and growing scholarship on the many aspects of a citizenship organizing for and against war . The text focuses attention on the roles of women, blacks, immigrants, and other individuals who typically fall outside of scrutiny in studies of American war -making society, and provides new information on subjects such as raising money for war , civil liberties in wartime, the role of returning soldiers in society, religion, relief work, popular culture, and building support for the cause of the Union and freedom.Organized topically, the book covers the geographic breadth of the diverse northern home fronts during the Civil War . The chapters supply self-contained studies of specific aspects of life, work, relief, home life, religion, and political affairs, to name only a few. This clearly written and immensely readable book reveals the key moments and gradual developments over time that influenced northerners'understanding of, participation in, and reactions to the costs and promise of a great civil war .
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Patriotism--United States--History--19th century - Nationalism--United States--History--19th centuryContent provider:
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost)
The Long Civil War : New Explorations of America’s Enduring Conflict
John David Smith;Raymond Arsenault;John David Smith;Raymond Arsenault
In this wide-ranging volume, eminent historians John David Smith and Raymond Arsenault...
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The Long Civil War : New Explorations of America’s Enduring Conflict
2021
In this wide-ranging volume, eminent historians John David Smith and Raymond Arsenault assemble a distinguished group of scholars to build on the growing body of work on the'Long Civil War 'and break new ground. They cover a variety of related subjects, including antebellum missionary activity and colonialism in Africa, the home front, the experiences of disabled veterans in the US Army Veteran Reserve Corps, and Dwight D. Eisenhower's personal struggles with the war's legacy amid the growing civil rights movement. The contributors offer fresh interpretations and challenging analyses of topics such as ritualistic suicide among former Confederates after the war and whitewashing in Walt Disney Studios'historical Cold War –era movies. Featuring many leading figures in the field, The Long Civil War meaningfully expands the focus of mid-nineteenth-century history as it was understood by previous generations of historians.
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eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost)
At Home : Historic Houses of Central and Western Massachusetts
Beth Luey;Beth Luey
With its rich history of prominent families, Massachusetts is home to some of the most...
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At Home : Historic Houses of Central and Western Massachusetts
2019
With its rich history of prominent families, Massachusetts is home to some of the most historic residences in the country. In the central and western half of the Commonwealth, these include Edith Wharton's The Mount, the Salisbury Mansion in Worcester, Herman Melville's Arrowhead in Pittsfield, and the Dickinson Homestead and the Evergreens in Amherst.In At Home : Historic Houses of Central and Western Massachusetts, Beth Luey examines the lives and homes of acclaimed poets and writers, slaves who won their freedom, Civil War enlistees, socialites, and leading merchants. Drawing on architectural and genealogical texts, wills, correspondence, and diaries, Luey situates the stories of these notable homes and the people who inhabited them in the context of broader economic, social, and political transformations. Filled with vivid details and fresh perspectives, each chapter is sure to inspire first-time visitors and seasoned travelers alike. All the homes are open to the public.
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Historic house museums--Massachusetts - Dwellings--MassachusettsContent provider:
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost)
At Home : Historic Houses of Eastern Massachusetts
Beth Luey;Beth Luey
With its abundant history of prominent families, Massachusetts boasts some of the most...
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At Home : Historic Houses of Eastern Massachusetts
2019
With its abundant history of prominent families, Massachusetts boasts some of the most historically rich residences in the country. In the eastern half of the Commonwealth, these include Presidents John and John Quincy Adams's home in Quincy, Bronson and Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House in Concord, the Charles Bulfinch -- designed Harrison Gray Otis House in Boston, and Edward Gorey's Elephant House in Yarmouth Port.In At Home : Historic Houses of Eastern Massachusetts, Beth Luey uses architectural and genealogical texts, wills, correspondences, and diaries to craft delightful narratives of these notable abodes and the people who variously built, acquired, or renovated them. Filled with vivid details and fresh perspectives that will surprise even the most knowledgeable aficionados, each chapter is short enough to serve as an introduction for a visit to its house. All the homes are open to the public.
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Dwellings--Massachusetts--Guidebooks - Historic buildings--Massachusetts--Guidebooks - Architecture, Domestic--Massachusetts--GuidebooksContent provider:
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost)
The War Criminal's Son : The Civil War Saga of William A. Winder
Jane Singer;Jane Singer
The War Criminal's Son brings to life hidden aspects of the Civil War through the swee...
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The War Criminal's Son : The Civil War Saga of William A. Winder
2019
The War Criminal's Son brings to life hidden aspects of the Civil War through the sweeping saga of the firstborn son in the infamous Confederate Winder family, who shattered family ties to stand with the Union. Gen. John H. Winder was the commandant of most prison camps in the Confederacy, including Andersonville. When Winder gave his son William Andrew Winder the order to come south and fight, desert, or commit suicide, William went to the White House and swore his allegiance to President Lincoln and the Union. Despite his pleas to remain at the front, it was not enough. Winder was ordered to command Alcatraz, a fortress that became a Civil War prison, where he treated his prisoners humanely despite repeated accusations of disloyalty and treason because the Winder name had become shorthand for brutality during an already brutal war . John Winder died before he could be brought to justice as a war criminal. Haunted by his father's villainy, William went into a self-imposed exile for twenty years and eventually ended up at the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, to fulfill his longstanding desire to better the lot of Native Americans. In The War Criminal's Son Jane Singer evokes the universal themes of loyalty, shame, and redemption in the face of unspeakable cruelty.
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Fathers and sons--United StatesContent provider:
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost)
Civilizing War : Imperial Politics and the Poetics of National Rupture
Nasser Mufti;Nasser Mufti
Winner of the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities, awarded by the Council of Gradu...
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Civilizing War : Imperial Politics and the Poetics of National Rupture
2017; Vol. 00028
Winner of the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities, awarded by the Council of Graduate Schools Honorable Mention for the 2019 Sonya Rudikoff Prize, awarded by the Northeast Victorian Studies Association Civilizing War traces the historical transformation of civil war from a civil affair into an uncivil crisis. Civil war is today synonymous with the global refugee crisis, often serving as grounds for liberal-humanitarian intervention and nationalist protectionism. In Civilizing War , Nasser Mufti situates this contemporary conjuncture in the long history of British imperialism, demonstrating how civil war has been and continues to be integral to the politics of empire. Through comparative readings of literature, criticism, historiography, and social analysis, Civilizing War shows how writers and intellectuals of Britain's Anglophone empire articulated a “poetics of national rupture” that defined the metropolitan nation and its colonial others. Mufti's tour de force marshals a wealth of examples as diverse as Thomas Carlyle, Benjamin Disraeli, Friedrich Engels, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, V. S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, and Michael Ondaatje to examine the variety of forms this poetics takes—metaphors, figures, tropes, puns, and plot—all of which have played a central role in Britain's civilizing mission and its afterlife. In doing so, Civilizing War shifts the terms of Edward Said's influential Orientalism to suggest that imperialism was not only organized around the norms of civility but also around narratives of civil war .
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English fiction--19th century--History and cri - English fiction--20th century--History and cri - Civil war in literature - Imperialism in literature - Great Britain--Colonies--CivilizationContent provider:
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost)
Civil Wars , Civil Beings, and Civil Rights in Alabama's Black Belt : A History of Perry County
Bertis D. English;Bertis D. English
Reconstruction politics and race relations between freed blacks and the white establis...
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Civil Wars , Civil Beings, and Civil Rights in Alabama's Black Belt : A History of Perry County
2020
Reconstruction politics and race relations between freed blacks and the white establishment in Perry County, Alabama In his fascinating, in-depth study, Bertis D. English analyzes why Perry County, situated in the heart of a violence-prone subregion of Alabama, enjoyed more peaceful race relations and less bloodshed than several neighboring counties. Choosing an atypical locality as central to his study, English raises questions about factors affecting ethnic disturbances in the Black Belt and elsewhere in Alabama. He also uses Perry County, which he deems an anomalous county, to caution against the tendency of some scholars to make sweeping generalizations about entire regions and subregions. English contends Perry County was a relatively tranquil place with a set of extremely influential African American businessmen, clergy, politicians, and other leaders during Reconstruction. Together with egalitarian or opportunistic white citizens, they headed a successful campaign for black agency and biracial cooperation that few counties in Alabama matched. English also illustrates how a significant number of educational institutions, a high density of African American residents, and an unusually organized and informed African American population were essential factors in forming Perry County's character. He likewise traces the development of religion in Perry, the nineteenth-century Baptist capital of Alabama, and the emergence of civil rights in Perry, an underemphasized center of activism during the twentieth century. This well-researched and comprehensive volume illuminates Perry County's history from the various perspectives of its black, interracial, and white inhabitants, amplifying their own voices in a novel way. The narrative includes rich personal details about ordinary and affluent people, both free and unfree, creating a distinctive resource that will be useful to scholars as well as a reference that will serve the needs of students and general readers.
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--AlabamaContent provider:
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost)
The African American Press in World War II : Toward Victory at Home and Abroad
Paul Alkebulan;Paul Alkebulan
Black journalists have vigorously exercised their First Amendment right since the foun...
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The African American Press in World War II : Toward Victory at Home and Abroad
2014
Black journalists have vigorously exercised their First Amendment right since the founding of Freedom's Journal in 1827. World War II was no different in this regard, and Paul Alkebulan argues that it was the most important moment in the long history of that important institution. American historians have often postulated that WWII was a pivotal moment for the modern civil rights movement. This argument is partially based on the pressing need to convincingly appeal to the patriotism and self-interest of black citizens in the fight against fascism and its racial doctrines. This appeal would have to recognize long standing and well-known grievances of African Americans and offer some immediate resolution to these problems, such as increased access to better housing and improved job prospects. 230 African American newspapers were prime actors in this struggle. Black editors and journalists gave a coherent and organized voice to the legitimate aspirations and grievances of African Americans for decades prior to WWII. In addition, they presented an alternative and more inclusive vision of democracy. The African American Press in World War II: Toward Victory at Home and Abroad shows how they accomplished this goal, and is different from other works in this field because it interprets WWII at home and abroad through the eyes of a diverse black press. Alkebulan shows the wide ranging interest of the press prior to the war and during the conflict. Labor union struggles, equal funding for black education, the criminal justice system, and the Italian invasion of Ethiopia were some of subjects covered before and during the war . Historians tend to write as if the African American press was ideologically homogenous, but, according to Alkebulan, this is not the case. For example, prior to the war , African American journalists were both sympathetic and opposed to Japanese ambitions in the Pacific. A. Philip Randolph's socialist journal The Messenger accurately warned against Imperial Japan's activities in Asia during WWI. There are other instances that run counter to the common wisdom. During World War II the Negro Newspaper Publishers Association not only pursued equal rights at home but also lectured blacks (military and civilian) about the need to avoid any behavior that would have a negative impact on the public image of the civil rights movement. The African American Press in World War II explores press coverage of international affairs in more depth than similar works. The African American press tended to conflate the civil rights movement with the anti-colonial struggle taking place in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. Alkebulan demonstrates how George Padmore and W.E.B. Du Bois were instrumental in this trend. While it heightened interest in anti-colonialism, it also failed to delineate crucial differences between fighting for national independence and demanding equal citizenship rights in one's native land.
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World War, 1939-1945--Press coverage--United States - African American press--History--20th century - World War, 1939-1945--African AmericansContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Spectacle of Grief : Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era
Sarah J. Purcell;Sarah J. Purcell
This illuminating book examines how the public funerals of major figures from the Civi...
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Spectacle of Grief : Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era
2022
This illuminating book examines how the public funerals of major figures from the Civil War era shaped public memories of the war and allowed a diverse set of people to contribute to changing American national identities. These funerals featured lengthy processions that sometimes crossed multiple state lines, burial ceremonies open to the public, and other cultural productions of commemoration such as oration and song. As Sarah J. Purcell reveals, Americans'participation in these funeral rites led to contemplation and contestation over the political and social meanings of the war and the roles played by the honored dead. Public mourning for military heroes, reformers, and politicians distilled political and social anxieties as the country coped with the aftermath of mass death and casualties. Purcell shows how large-scale funerals for figures such as Henry Clay and Thomas J.'Stonewall'Jackson set patterns for mourning culture and Civil War commemoration; after 1865, public funerals for figures such as Robert E. Lee, Charles Sumner, Frederick Douglass, and Winnie Davis elaborated on these patterns and fostered public debate about the meanings of the war , Reconstruction, race, and gender.
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Collective memory--United States - Funeral rites and ceremonies--United States--History--19th century - Death--Social aspects--United States--History--19th centuryContent provider:
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost)
Neocleous, Mark;Neocleous, Mark
Why is liberalism so obsessed with waste? Is there a drone above you now? Are you livi...
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2014
Why is liberalism so obsessed with waste? Is there a drone above you now? Are you living in a no-fly zone? What is the role of masculinity in the ‘war on terror'? And why do so many liberals profess a love of peace while finding new ways to justify slaughter in the name of ‘peace and security'? In this, the first book to deal with the concepts of war power and police power together, Mark Neocleous deals with these questions and many more by radically rethinking the relationship between war power and police power.
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Power (Social sciences) - War and society - Police powerContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Utah and the Great War : The Beehive State and the World War I Experience
Allan Kent Powell;Allan Kent Powell
Copublished with the Utah State Historical Society. Affiliated with the Utah Division ...
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Utah and the Great War : The Beehive State and the World War I Experience
2016
Copublished with the Utah State Historical Society. Affiliated with the Utah Division of State History, Utah Department of Heritage & Arts. In time for the centennial of the United States's entry into World War I, this collection of seventeen essays explores the war experience in Utah through multiple perspectives, from those of soldiers, nurses and ambulance drivers who experienced the horror of the conflict firsthand to those on the home front who were transformed by the war . Citizens supported the war financially, through service on councils of defense, with victory gardens, and by other means. Some of Utah's Native Americans and at least one Episcopal bishop resisted the war . The terrible 1918–1919 flu pandemic impacted Utah and killed more victims around the world than those who died on the battlefields. There was a Red Scare and fight over United States participation in a League of Nations. These topics and more are explored, helping us understand the nature and complexity of the conflict and its impact on Utahns.
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World War, 1914-1918--UtahContent provider:
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost)
Understanding War : An Annotated Bibliography
Christian P. Potholm;Christian P. Potholm
The third book in Professor Christian Potholm's war trilogy (which includes Winning at...
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Understanding War : An Annotated Bibliography
2016; Vol. volume III
The third book in Professor Christian Potholm's war trilogy (which includes Winning at War and War Wisdom), Understanding War provides a most workable bibliography dealing with the vast literature on war and warfare. As such, it provides insights into over 3000 works on this overwhelmingly extensive material. Understanding War is thus the most comprehensive annotated bibliography available today.Moreover, by dividing war material into eighteen overarching themes of analysis and fifty seminal topics, and focusing on these, Understanding War enables the reader to access and understand the broadest possible array of materials across both time and space, beginning with the earliest forms of warfare and concluding with the contemporary situation.Stimulating and thought-provoking, this volume is essential for an understanding of the breadth and depth of the vast scholarship dealing with war and warfare through human history and across cultures.
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War--Bibliography - Military art and science--BibliographyContent provider:
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost)
Folktales and Fairy Tales : Traditions and Texts From Around the World [4 Volumes]
Anne E. Duggan Ph.D;Donald Haase Ph.D;Helen J. Callow;Anne E. Duggan Ph.D;D...
Encyclopedic in its coverage, this one-of-a-kind reference is ideal for students, scho...
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Folktales and Fairy Tales : Traditions and Texts From Around the World [4 Volumes]
2016
Encyclopedic in its coverage, this one-of-a-kind reference is ideal for students, scholars, and others who need reliable, up-to-date information on folk and fairy tales , past and present.Folktales and fairy tales have long played an important role in cultures around the world. They pass customs and lore from generation to generation, provide insights into the peoples who created them, and offer inspiration to creative artists working in media that now include television, film, manga, photography, and computer games. This second, expanded edition of an award-winning reference will help students and teachers as well as storytellers, writers, and creative artists delve into this enchanting world and keep pace with its past and its many new facets.Alphabetically organized and global in scope, the work is the only multivolume reference in English to offer encyclopedic coverage of this subject matter. The four-volume collection covers national, cultural, regional, and linguistic traditions from around the world as well as motifs, themes, characters, and tale types. Writers and illustrators are included as are filmmakers and composers—and, of course, the tales themselves. The expert entries within volumes 1 through 3 are based on the latest research and developments while the contents of volume 4 comprises tales and texts. While most books either present readers with tales from certain countries or cultures or with thematic entries, this encyclopedia stands alone in that it does both, making it a truly unique, one-stop resource.
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Tales - Fairy talesContent provider:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Halpert, Herbert;Widdowson, J. D. A.;Halpert, Herbert;Widdowson, J. D. A.
This annotated collection presents a unique corpus of over 400 traditional tales, coll...
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2010
This annotated collection presents a unique corpus of over 400 traditional tales , collected by North America's most distinguished scholar of Folk Studies. It includes anecdotes, historical and aetiological tales , legends (including the tales of the Jersey Devil), and tall tales . This book contains thirteen black and white photographs.
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Folklore--New Jersey--Pine Barrens - Tales--New Jersey--Pine BarrensContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
From the Halls of the Montezumas: Mexican War Dispatches From James L. Freaner, Writing Under the Pen Name “Mustang”
Gaff, Alan D;Gaff, Donald H.;Gaff, Alan D;Gaff, Donald H.
James L. Freaner is one of the most important unknown Americans in our nation's histor...
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From the Halls of the Montezumas: Mexican War Dispatches From James L. Freaner, Writing Under the Pen Name “Mustang”
2019; Vol. 00014
James L. Freaner is one of the most important unknown Americans in our nation's history. Freaner gained fame throughout the country during the Mexican War while covering General Winfield Scott's campaign. As one of America's first war correspondents, Freaner's letters appeared in newspapers under the byline “Mustang,” and his reports from the front included information unavailable elsewhere. Among Freaner's scoops were the publication of complete casualty lists (long before official reports became public), detailed battle descriptions, and observations on postwar Mexico. Despite his widespread fame as a reporter, Freaner's greatest contribution to the United States came during a conversation with Nicholas P. Trist, negotiator of the peace treaty with Mexico. After Trist had passed along an outrageous proposal from the Mexican commissioners, he was recalled, but Freaner convinced Trist to ignore the order and begin a new round of negotiations. Trist resumed, concluded the war , and added California, Nevada, Utah, and other territory to a growing country. This acquisition was second in size only to the Louisiana Purchase and was a direct result of James Freaner persuading Trist to brazenly conclude a treaty when he had no authority to do so. From the Halls of the Montezumas is a complete compilation of Freaner's Mexican War reporting. Editors Alan D. Gaff and Donald H. Gaff have annotated the text with footnotes identifying people, places, and events, and also have added illustrations of key figures and maps. They supplement Freaner's dispatches with biographical information that ranges from his early career to his journey to the gold fields of California and his untimely death at the hands of Indians in California in 1852.
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Mexican War, 1846-1848--Journalists--Biography - Mexican War, 1846-1848--Journalism, Military - Mexican War, 1846-1848--Campaigns--Mexico - Chapultepec, Battle of, Mexico City, Mexico, 1847--Personal narratives, American - Mexican War, 1846-1848--Personal narratives, AmericanContent provider:
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost)
Remembering the Memphis Massacre : An American Story
Beverly Greene Bond;Susan Eva O'Donovan;Beverly Greene Bond;Susan Eva O'Don...
On May 1, 1866, a minor exchange between white Memphis city police and a group of blac...
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Remembering the Memphis Massacre : An American Story
2020
On May 1, 1866, a minor exchange between white Memphis city police and a group of black Union soldiers quickly escalated into murder and mayhem. Changes wrought by the Civil War and African American emancipation sent long-standing racial, economic, cultural, class, and gender tensions rocketing to new heights. For three days, a mob of white men roamed through South Memphis, leaving a trail of blood, rubble, and terror in their wake. By May 3, at least forty-six African American men, women, and children and two white men lay dead. An unknown number of black people had been driven out of the city. Every African American church and schoolhouse lay in ruins, homes and businesses burglarized and burned, and at least five women had been raped.As a federal military commander noted in the days following, “what [was] called the ‘riot'” was “in reality [a] massacre” of extended proportions. It was also a massacre whose effects spread far beyond Memphis, Tennessee. As the essays in this collection reveal, the massacre at Memphis changed the trajectory of the post–Civil War nation. Led by recently freed slaves who refused to be cowed and federal officials who took their concerns seriously, the national response to the horror that ripped through the city in May 1866 helped to shape the nation we know today. Remembering the Memphis Massacre brings this pivotal moment and its players, long hidden from all but specialists in the field, to a public that continues to feel the effects of those three days and the history that made them possible.
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African Americans--Violence against--Tennessee--Memphis--History--19th century - Memphis Race Riot, Memphis, Tenn., 1866 - Race riots--Tennessee--Memphis--History--19th centuryContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Baking Powder Wars : The Cutthroat Food Fight That Revolutionized Cooking
Linda Civitello;Linda Civitello
First patented in 1856, baking powder sparked a classic American struggle for business...
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Baking Powder Wars : The Cutthroat Food Fight That Revolutionized Cooking
2017
First patented in 1856, baking powder sparked a classic American struggle for business supremacy. For nearly a century, brands battled to win loyal consumers for the new leavening miracle, transforming American commerce and advertising even as they touched off a chemical revolution in the world's kitchens. Linda Civitello chronicles the titanic struggle that reshaped America's diet and rewrote its recipes. Presidents and robber barons, bare-knuckle litigation and bold-faced bribery, competing formulas and ruthless pricing--Civitello shows how hundreds of companies sought market control, focusing on the big four of Rumford, Calumet, Clabber Girl, and the once-popular brand Royal. She also tells the war's untold stories, from Royal's claims that its competitors sold poison, to the Ku Klux Klan's campaign against Clabber Girl and its German Catholic owners. Exhaustively researched and rich with detail, Baking Powder Wars is the forgotten story of how a dawning industry raised Cain--and cakes, cookies, muffins, pancakes, donuts, and biscuits.
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Baking powder--Economic aspects--United States--History - Baking powder--United States--HistoryContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Contested Loyalty : Debates Over Patriotism in the Civil War North
Robert M. Sandow;Robert M. Sandow
Embroiled in the Civil War, northerners wrote and spoke with frequency about the subje...
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Contested Loyalty : Debates Over Patriotism in the Civil War North
2018
Embroiled in the Civil War , northerners wrote and spoke with frequency about the subject of loyalty. The word was common in newspaper articles, political pamphlets, and speeches, appeared on flags, broadsides, and prints, was written into diaries and letters and the stationary they appeared on, and even found its way into sermons. Its ubiquity suggests that loyalty was an important concept…but what did it mean to those who used it? Contested Loyalty examines the significance of loyalty across fault lines of gender, social class, and education, race and ethnicity, and political or religious affiliation. These differing vantage points reveal the complicated ways in which loyalties were defined, prioritized, acted upon, and related.While most of the scholarly work on Civil War Era nationalism has focused on southern identity and Confederate nationhood, the essays in Contested Loyalty examine the variable, fluid constructions of these concepts in the north. Essays explore the limitations and incomplete nature of national loyalty and how disparate groups struggled to control its meaning. The authors move beyond the narrow partisan debate over Democratic dissent to examine other challenges to and competing interpretations of national loyalty. Today's leading and emerging scholars examine loyalty through: the frame of politics at the state and national level; the viewpoints of college educated men as well as the women they courted; the attitudes of northern Protestant churches on issues of patriotism and loyalty; working class men and women in military industries; how employers could use the language of loyalty to take away the rights of workers; and the meaning of loyalty in contexts of race and ethnicity.The Union cause was a powerful ideology committing millions of citizens, in the ranks and at home , to a long and bloody war . But loyalty to the Union cause imperfectly explains how citizens reacted to the traumas of war or the ways in which conflicting loyalties played out in everyday life. The essays in this collection point us down the path of greater understanding.
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Loyalty--Civil War, 1861-1865 - Patriotism--United StatesContent provider:
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Instruments of War : Weapons and Technologies That Have Changed History
Spencer C. Tucker;Spencer C. Tucker
This highly detailed and well-illustrated single-volume work documents the evolution o...
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Instruments of War : Weapons and Technologies That Have Changed History
2015
This highly detailed and well-illustrated single-volume work documents the evolution of warfare across history through weaponry and technological change.In war , the weapons and technologies employed have direct effects on how battles are waged. When new weapons are introduced, they can dramatically alter the outcomes of warfare—and consequently change the course of history itself. This reference work provides a fascinating overview of the major weapon systems and military technologies that have had a major impact on world history. Addressing weapons as crude as the club used by primitive man to the high-tech weapons of today such as unmanned drones, Instruments of War : Weapons and Technologies That Have Changed History offers nearly 270 profusely illustrated entries that examine the key roles played by specific weapons and identify their success and failures. The book begins with an introductory essay that frames the subject matter of the work and discusses the history of weapons as a whole. The text is concise and accessible to general readers without extensive backgrounds in military history yet provides the detailed information necessary to convey the complexity of the evolution of warfare through technological change.
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Military art and science--History - Military weapons--HistoryContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
The Napoleonic Wars : A Global History
Alexander Mikaberidze;Alexander Mikaberidze
Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these are the places most ...
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The Napoleonic Wars : A Global History
2015
Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these are the places most closely associated with the era of the Napoleonic Wars . But how did this period of nearly continuous conflict affect the world beyond Europe? The immensity of the fighting waged by France against England, Prussia, Austria, and Russia, and the immediate consequences of the tremors that spread throughout the world. In this ambitious and far-ranging work, Alexander Mikaberidze argues that the Napoleonic Wars can only be fully understood in an international perspective. France struggled for dominance not only on the plains of Europe but also in the Americas, West and South Africa, Ottoman Empire, Iran, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Mediterranean Sea, and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Taking specific regions in turn, Mikaberidze discusses major political-military events around the world and situates geopolitical decision-making within its long- and short-term contexts. From the British expeditions to Argentina and South Africa to the Franco-Russian maneuvering in the Ottoman Empire, the effects of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars would shape international affairs well into the next century. In Egypt, the wars led to the rise of Mehmed Ali and the emergence of a powerful state; in North America, the period transformed and enlarged the newly established United States; and in South America, the Spanish colonial empire witnessed the start of national-liberation movements that ultimately ended imperial control. Skillfully narrated and deeply researched, here at last is the global history of the period, one that expands our view of the Napoleonic Wars and their role in laying the foundations of the modern world.
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Military history, Modern--19th century - Geopolitics--History--19th century - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815--InfluenceContent provider:
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost)
Writers of Short Folktales
Salem Press;Salem Press
Writers of Short Folktales is a single-volume reference that contains essays carefully...
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Writers of Short Folktales
2017
Writers of Short Folktales is a single-volume reference that contains essays carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in this volume discuss such influential writers as Hans Christian Anderson, Brothers Grimm, Washington Irving, and Nikolai Gogol.
