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The Civil War and the Summer of 2020
Hilary Green, Andrew L Slap; Foreword by Andre E. Johnson; Contributions by John Bardes, Karen Cook Bell, …
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R639
Discovery Miles 6 390
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Investigates how Americans have remembered violence and resistance
since the Civil War, including Confederate monuments, historical
markers, college classrooms, and history books. George Floyd’s
murder in the summer of 2020 sparked a national reckoning for the
United States that had been 400 years in the making. Millions of
Americans took to the streets to protest both the murder and the
centuries of systemic racism that already existed among European
colonists but transformed with the arrival of the first enslaved
African Americans in 1619. The violence needed to enforce that
systemic racism for all those years, from the slave driver’s whip
to state-sponsored police brutality, attracted the immediate
attention of the protesters. The resistance of the protesters
echoed generations of African Americans’ resisting the violence
and oppression of white supremacy. Their opposition to violence
soon spread to other aspects of systemic racism, including a
cultural hegemony built on and reinforcing white supremacy. At the
heart of this white supremacist culture is the memory of the Civil
War era, when in 1861 8 million white Americans revolted against
their country to try to safeguard the enslavement of 4 million
African Americans. The volume has three interconnected sections
that build on one another. The first section, “Violence,”
explores systemic racism in the Civil War era and now with essays
on slavery, policing, and slave patrols. The second section, titled
“Resistance,” shows how African Americans resisted violence for
the past two centuries, with essays discussing matters including
self-emancipation and African American soldiers. The final section,
“Memory,” investigates how Americans have remembered this
violence and resistance since the Civil War, including Confederate
monuments and historical markers. This volume is intended for
nonhistorians interested in showing the intertwined and
longstanding connections between systemic racism, violence,
resistance, and the memory of the Civil War era in the United
States that finally exploded in the summer of 2020.
Final Resting Places brings together some of the most important and
innovative scholars of the Civil War era to reflect on what death
and memorialization meant to the Civil War generation—and how
those meanings still influence Americans today. In each essay, a
noted historian explores a different type of gravesite—including
large marble temples, unmarked graves beneath the waves, makeshift
markers on battlefields, mass graves on hillsides, neat rows of
military headstones, university graveyards, tombs without bodies,
and small family plots. Each burial place tells a unique story of
how someone lived and died; how they were mourned and remembered.
Together, they help us reckon with the most tragic period of
American history. CONTRUBUTORS: Terry Alford, Melodie Andrews,
Edward L. Ayers, DeAnne Blanton, Michael Burlingame, Katherine
Reynolds Chaddock, John M. Coski, William C. Davis, Douglas R.
Egerton, Stephen D. Engle, Barbara Gannon, Michael P. Gray, Hilary
Green, Allen C. Guelzo, Anna Gibson Holloway, Vitor Izecksohn,
Caroline E. Janney, Michelle A. Krowl, Glenn W. LaFantasie,
Jennifer M. Murray, Barton A. Myers, Timothy J. Orr, Christopher
Phillips, Mark S. Schantz, Dana B. Shoaf, Walter Stahr, Michael
Vorenberg, and Ronald C. White
Reconstruction is one of the most complex, overlooked, and
misunderstood periods of American history. The thirteen essays in
this volume address the multiple struggles to make good on
President Abraham Lincoln’s promise of a “new birth of
freedom” in the years following the Civil War, as well as the
counter-efforts including historiographical ones—to undermine
those struggles. The forms these struggles took varied enormously,
extended geographically beyond the former Confederacy, influenced
political and racial thought internationally, and remain open to
contestation even today. The fight to establish and maintain
meaningful freedoms for America’s Black population led to the
apparently concrete and permanent legal form of the three key
Reconstruction Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, as well as the
revised state constitutions, but almost all of the latter were
overturned by the end of the century, and even the former are not
necessarily out of jeopardy. And it was not just the formerly
enslaved who were gaining and losing freedoms. Struggles over
freedom, citizenship, and rights can be seen in a variety of
venues. At times, gaining one freedom might endanger another. How
we remember Reconstruction and what we do with that memory
continues to influence politics, especially the politics of race,
in the contemporary United States. Offering analysis of educational
and professional expansion, legal history, armed resistance, the
fate of Black soldiers, international diplomacy post-1865 and much
more, the essays collected here draw attention to some of the vital
achievements of the Reconstruction period while reminding us that
freedoms can be won, but they can also be lost.
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The Civil War and the Summer of 2020
Hilary Green, Andrew L Slap; Foreword by Andre E. Johnson; Contributions by John Bardes, Karen Cook Bell, …
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R2,129
Discovery Miles 21 290
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Investigates how Americans have remembered violence and resistance
since the Civil War, including Confederate monuments, historical
markers, college classrooms, and history books. George Floyd’s
murder in the summer of 2020 sparked a national reckoning for the
United States that had been 400 years in the making. Millions of
Americans took to the streets to protest both the murder and the
centuries of systemic racism that already existed among European
colonists but transformed with the arrival of the first enslaved
African Americans in 1619. The violence needed to enforce that
systemic racism for all those years, from the slave driver’s whip
to state-sponsored police brutality, attracted the immediate
attention of the protesters. The resistance of the protesters
echoed generations of African Americans’ resisting the violence
and oppression of white supremacy. Their opposition to violence
soon spread to other aspects of systemic racism, including a
cultural hegemony built on and reinforcing white supremacy. At the
heart of this white supremacist culture is the memory of the Civil
War era, when in 1861 8 million white Americans revolted against
their country to try to safeguard the enslavement of 4 million
African Americans. The volume has three interconnected sections
that build on one another. The first section, “Violence,”
explores systemic racism in the Civil War era and now with essays
on slavery, policing, and slave patrols. The second section, titled
“Resistance,” shows how African Americans resisted violence for
the past two centuries, with essays discussing matters including
self-emancipation and African American soldiers. The final section,
“Memory,” investigates how Americans have remembered this
violence and resistance since the Civil War, including Confederate
monuments and historical markers. This volume is intended for
nonhistorians interested in showing the intertwined and
longstanding connections between systemic racism, violence,
resistance, and the memory of the Civil War era in the United
States that finally exploded in the summer of 2020.
Love and danger intermingle in the dark days of the Second World
War - a wartime romance of immense appeal. Liverpool 1942.
Seventeen-year-old Frankie Franconi falls in love with charismatic
British officer Nick Harper as quickly and certainly as the bomb
that falls on their shelter. He is impressed by her good looks and
intelligence, and the fact that, like him, she speaks fluent
Italian. When she insists on staying to help rescue others who have
been trapped he realises that she has courage, too. He gives her a
business card with a Baker Street address, and suggests she put her
skills to good use. Within a month Frankie has joined the FANYs and
started her training. Stationed first in England, then Africa and
finally Italy, Frankie and her fellow recruits work tirelessly
decoding messages from agents in the field by day, and enjoying the
wartime parties at night. But when she signs the Official Secrets
Act she has no idea of the danger, adventure and terrible choices
that are in store.
This is an intergated approach to exercise physiology explaining
how the major systems are all affected by autonomic neural control
during exercise. It considers physiology, energy metabolism, the
cardiovascular, respiratory system and temperature
regulation.;These areas have been selected for their significance
during exercise because of the crucial importance of the autonomic
nervous system in their control. In each case resting physiology is
described before the derangements caused by exercise are discussed.
It also examines some of the factors which affect autonomic nervous
activity during exercise, namely age, sex, training and drugs and
considers the clinical application of applied physiology.;The book
is intended primarily for undergraduate and postgraduate students
in sport science with a specialist interest in exercise physiology.
It is assumed that the reader will already have studied some
physiology and physiology of exercises, and therefore this text is
intended to supplement general textbooks and lecture material.
Since exercise physiology provides a good example of a disturbance
of homeostasis and the subsequent role of physiological control
mechanisms to restore equilibrium, it is hoped that this text will
also prove useful for students in medical and life sciences.
Reconstruction is one of the most complex, overlooked, and
misunderstood periods of American history. The thirteen essays in
this volume address the multiple struggles to make good on
President Abraham Lincoln's promise of a "new birth of freedom" in
the years following the Civil War, as well as the counter-efforts
including historiographical ones-to undermine those struggles. The
forms these struggles took varied enormously, extended
geographically beyond the former Confederacy, influenced political
and racial thought internationally, and remain open to contestation
even today. The fight to establish and maintain meaningful freedoms
for America's Black population led to the apparently concrete and
permanent legal form of the three key Reconstruction Amendments to
the U.S. Constitution, as well as the revised state constitutions,
but almost all of the latter were overturned by the end of the
century, and even the former are not necessarily out of jeopardy.
And it was not just the formerly enslaved who were gaining and
losing freedoms. Struggles over freedom, citizenship, and rights
can be seen in a variety of venues. At times, gaining one freedom
might endanger another. How we remember Reconstruction and what we
do with that memory continues to influence politics, especially the
politics of race, in the contemporary United States. Offering
analysis of educational and professional expansion, legal history,
armed resistance, the fate of Black soldiers, international
diplomacy post-1865 and much more, the essays collected here draw
attention to some of the vital achievements of the Reconstruction
period while reminding us that freedoms can be won, but they can
also be lost.
Tracing the first two decades of state-funded African American
schools, Educational Reconstruction addresses the ways in which
black Richmonders, black Mobilians, and their white allies created,
developed, and sustained a system of African American schools
following the Civil War. Hilary Green proposes a new chronology in
understanding postwar African American education, examining how
urban African Americans demanded quality public schools from their
new city and state partners. Revealing the significant gains made
after the departure of the Freedmen's Bureau, this study
reevaluates African American higher education in terms of
developing a cadre of public school educator-activists and
highlights the centrality of urban African American protest in
shaping educational decisions and policies in their respective
cities and states.
Diana 'Steve' Escott-Stevens knows what she is getting herself
into. For 12 months she has fed and looked after agents preparing
for a mission in France. She knows that only half of them will come
back. But she is young, brave and moreover speaks fluent French.
When she applies to become an agent for the Special Operations
Executive she is readily accepted and sent off for training to
prepare her for the field. The training is demanding; sabotage,
codes, hand-to-hand combat, parachute jumps. But it is only too
quickly that she finds herself in a Lysander flying to France,
where any mistake could mean capture, torture or death, for her and
others.
It is 1942. The theatres of war are North Africa and Italy. All
eyes follow the front, but behind the scenes a messier war
continues, an improvised game of snatched triumphs, terrible
mistakes and terrifying uncertainty. Cabaret singer by night, spy
by day, Richard risks his life to help British servicemen escape
occupied France and get back to England. Rose leads a group of
dancers with mixed morals high-kicking to entertain the troops as
Hitler's bombers roar in the skies above. Then she is given orders
to join the forces in the field, destination unknown. Meanwhile a
phantom pianist, who has lost the love of his life, is following
Montys soldiers across the African desert, mocking the enemies guns
by playing Beethoven between the lines.
Hilary Green takes the reader on a journey through the complex
developing trade of the Middle Ages, which is the foundation of
trade today. Taking the production of wool in the abbeys of the
north of England as a starting point, she follows its journey to
Flanders where it was woven into a variety of textiles in the
growing international marketplace of Bruges. The journey continues
to Bordeaux where the wool was traded for wine, which found its way
back to London where some of it was traded for more wool. She
describes the trade fairs of the Champagne region of France where
wool and leather goods along with salt, iron and other commodities
were traded and where banking developed - and she explains why. The
merchants of Genoa developed the various trade routes, whether by
land over the Alps or by water via rivers or the Mediterranean. By
these routes, silks and spices came from the repositories in
Alexandria and before that via camel trains from Arabia. The author
investigates the mysteries and intrigue of trade where silkworms
were smuggled into Constantinople and precious gems and ivory were
shipped from unknown locations. Arab and Indian merchants brought
exotic spices - cumin, ginger, pepper, nutmeg and cinnamon - and
aromatics such a myrrh and frankincense to Egypt via the Red Sea.
As trade expanded and became more valuable, international relations
became more sophisticated as governments moved to protect the
valuable income it brought.
Final Resting Places brings together some of the most important and
innovative scholars of the Civil War era to reflect on what death
and memorialization meant to the Civil War generation—and how
those meanings still influence Americans today. In each essay, a
noted historian explores a different type of gravesite—including
large marble temples, unmarked graves beneath the waves, makeshift
markers on battlefields, mass graves on hillsides, neat rows of
military headstones, university graveyards, tombs without bodies,
and small family plots. Each burial place tells a unique story of
how someone lived and died; how they were mourned and remembered.
Together, they help us reckon with the most tragic period of
American history. CONTRUBUTORS: Terry Alford, Melodie Andrews,
Edward L. Ayers, DeAnne Blanton, Michael Burlingame, Katherine
Reynolds Chaddock, John M. Coski, William C. Davis, Douglas R.
Egerton, Stephen D. Engle, Barbara Gannon, Michael P. Gray, Hilary
Green, Allen C. Guelzo, Anna Gibson Holloway, Vitor Izecksohn,
Caroline E. Janney, Michelle A. Krowl, Glenn W. LaFantasie,
Jennifer M. Murray, Barton A. Myers, Timothy J. Orr, Christopher
Phillips, Mark S. Schantz, Dana B. Shoaf, Walter Stahr, Michael
Vorenberg, and Ronald C. White
Desperately tired after months living rough with Italian partisans,
Richard makes a mistake behind enemy lines that results in
devastating tragedy. Rose, performing for the troops crossing
France, at last finds a man she feels she can love and is forced to
make the most difficult decision of her life. Merry's lover is
returned to him from the jaws of death only to be separated from
him again by the demands of duty. But while the battle rages on
they will fight for the future. In war and peace, in joy and
despair, life continues - but never as expected.
In an empty theatre at the end of the pier the cast of the
Fairbourne Follies gathers round the radio to hear Neville
Chamberlain declare war on Germany. Four firm friends are forced to
part. Rose, the beautiful dancer, must return to her family in
London and the blitz, leaving singer Richard to enlist in the army
with their relationship still unresolved. Gay, asthmatic Merry, the
musical director, is destined for the army too, while the object of
his unrequited love, charismatic magician, Felix, chooses the RAF.
Before long, Rose joins a group entertaining the troops in France.
The Nazi war machine however is fast and merciless on the land and
in the air and soon all of them find themselves in terrible danger.
And as they are struck by the brutality of war they realise exactly
who is most important to them and despite the odds, and in terrible
circumstances, they determine to find each other again. With the
threat of capture, injury and death ever present, the four of them
will have to find reserves of courage, love and endurance that they
did not know they possessed.
January, 1941. Dark days for Britain, standing alone against the
menace of Nazi Germany, and for four friends fighting their own
personal battles . . . When Rose Taylor receives two proposals on
New Year's Eve she has to face an agonising choice that threatens
to separate her from all those she loves. Meanwhile, Richard
Stephens has to come to terms with his shattered dream - the only
thing that sustained him through the chaos of Dunkirk and the long
months on the run as an escaped prisoner of war. For beautiful
Felix, badly burned when his Spitfire was shot down in flames,
there is the prospect of weeks of painful surgery, watched by his
anguished lover. But as the months go by each of them finds the
courage to face danger. For it lurks on every side . . .
Tracing the first two decades of state-funded African American
schools, Educational Reconstruction addresses the ways in which
black Richmonders, black Mobilians, and their white allies created,
developed, and sustained a system of African American schools
following the Civil War. Hilary Green proposes a new chronology in
understanding postwar African American education, examining how
urban African Americans demanded quality public schools from their
new city and state partners. Revealing the significant gains made
after the departure of the Freedmen's Bureau, this study
reevaluates African American higher education in terms of
developing a cadre of public school educator-activists and
highlights the centrality of urban African American protest in
shaping educational decisions and policies in their respective
cities and states.
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