Provides the most comprehensive overview of the American war memorial as a cultural form and reframes the national debate over Civil War monuments that remain potent presences on the civic landscape.
This sweeping new assessment of Civil War monuments unveiled in the United States between the 1860s and 1930s argues that they were pivotal to a national embrace of military values. Americans' wariness of standing armies limited construction of war memorials in the early republic, Thomas J. Brown explains, and continued to influence commemoration after the Civil War. As large cities and small towns across the North and South installed an aston...
Butter tests of Jerseys, being a collection of tests of registered Jersey cows, - Werein the yield has amounted to fourteen pounds or more per week. Brought down to the first of January, 1884 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1884.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher w...
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Excerpt from Place-Names of the Province of Nova ScotiaThe Indian Names of Canada.The memory of the Red Man, How can it pass away, While their names of music lingerOn each mount and stream and bay, While Musquodoboit's watersRoll sparkling to the main, While falls the laughing sunbeamOn Chegoggin's fields of grain, While floats our country's bannerO'er Chebucto's glorious wave, And frowning cliffs of ScatarieThe trampling surges brave, While b...
Bringing together international perspectives from criminology, psychology, law, and business and adopting a morally neutral stance, this book offers a holistic overview of digitial piracy, considering its cultural, commercial, and legal aspects.
In this expansive history of South Carolina's commemoration of the Civil War era, Thomas J. Brown uses the lens of place to examine the ways that landmarks of Confederate memory have helped white southerners negotiate their shifting political, social, and economic positions. By looking at prominent sites such as Fort Sumter, Charleston's Magnolia Cemetery, and the South Carolina statehouse, Brown reveals a dynamic pattern of contestation and c...
Eight rising historians survey recent scholarship on Reconstruction and identify promising directions for future research. They show that the issues in interpretive debates have changed markedly but that Reconstruction still inspires outstanding historical literature and now encompasses a wider range of adjustments to the effects of the Civil War.
An influential lobbyist as well as a paragon of the doctrine of female benevolence, Dorothea Dix vividly illustrated the complexities of the "separate spheres" of politics and femininity. An activist who disdained the women's rights and antislavery movements, Dix, an old-line Whig, sought to promote national harmony and became the only New England social reformer to work successfully in the lower South right up to the eve of secession.
This collection continues the conversation Warren began fifty years ago, although taking it in unorthodox and challenging directions, to offer fresh and stimulating perspectives on the war's presence in the collective imagination of the nation.
In his book "The Legacy of the Civil War", Robert Penn Warren remarked that "the Civil War is, for the American imagination, the great single event of our history". This title reconsiders whether Warren's influential claim holds true. It examines how the Civil War is represented and interpreted in contemporary culture.
The pivotal era of Reconstruction has inspired an outstanding historical literature over the decades from W.E.B. DuBois' Black Reconstruction in America in 1935 through Eric Foner's Reconstruction in 1988. The resolution of long-running interpretive debates has shifted the issues at stake in Reconstruction scholarship, but the topic has remained a vital venue for original exploration of the regional and national history of the United States. I...
