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Mitchell concentrates on the experiences of Northern soldiers when they left their home communities for the Civil War. Quoting extensively from letters and diaries, he not only creates an important social document describing the soldiers' relationships to their families, to their communities, and to their government, but also paints a moving portrait of men at war.

SELL YOUR BONES, Reid Mitchell's first collection, consists largely of poems reacting to China and with Chinese literature in translation. Sinologist and poet Wolfgang Kubin describes it in this way. " We do find a lot of great poems in this volume which more or less have also to do with places out of China, but most of the verses we read here got their inspirations from encounters with places like Qingdao, Beijing or Hong Kong. In this respec...

In this title, the authors focus primarily on methods of researching children's popular culture as well as offering analyses of such phenomena as children's websites and the internet, and popular toys like Barbie.

The American Civil War caused upheaval and massive private bereavement, but the years 1861-1865 also defined a great nation. This book provides a concise introduction to events from the secession to the end of the war. It focuses on # the military progress of the war# Union and Confederate politics# social change - particularly the emancipation of North American slaves The social history associated with the war is dealt with alongside the fami...

La guerra civile o guerra di secessione che si combatté fra il Nord e il Sud degli Stati Uniti dal 1861 al 1865 fu un conflitto che lasciò sul terreno oltre seicentomila morti e che ebbe conseguenze enormi sulla società e sull'economia del paese, a partire dall'emancipazione degli schiavi neri. Reid Mitchell ripercorre la storia della guerra di secessione, esponendone in primo luogo l'andamento dal punto di vista militare, e poi collocandola a...

hope persists for a rare balance between diversity and unity.

The soldiers on both sides of the Civil War were united by a common history, and yet the legacy of this past was ambiguous, upholding both rebellion and union. Union and Confederate men went to war as Americans, convinced they fought an un-American, savage enemy. The war they fought was as emotional and catastrophic as any in history, a violent crucible that forged a new national identity. Civil War Soldiers is a fresh and compelling attempt t...

The tween is the «new girl on the block» in girlhood studies. Although the study of tween life may have derived from a particular marketing orientation at the end of the twentieth century, it is not limited by it. On the contrary, this collection of essays shows that «tween» is not a simple or unified concept, nor is it limited to a certain class of girls in a few countries. This collection by an international group of authors highlights speci...

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The place of childhood in popular culture is one that invites new readings both on childhood itself, but also on approaches to studying childhood. Discussing different methods of researching children's popular culture, they argue that the interplay of the age of the players, the status of their popular culture, the transience of the objects, and indeed the ephemerality - and long lastingness - of childhood, all contribute to what could be rega...