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The fraught tension between science and religion has loomed large
in scholarship about the nineteenth century in Spain, especially
given the prominence of the Catholic Church and the discoveries
made by Wallace and Darwin. The struggle for epistemological
superiority between these two discourses (science and religion) has
served to overshadow certain corners of the cultural landscape
that, though prominent sites of intellectual exploration in their
day, have received comparatively less scholarly attention until
recently. Fringe Discourses brings together a group of essays that
seeks to restore a sense of the epistemological richness of
nineteenth-century Spain. By exploring the relationship between
epistemology, modernity, and subjectivity, these essays recover
significant efforts by Spanish authors and intellectuals to explain
human nature and their world, which seemed to be changing so
radically before their eyes. In doing so the essays also reveal
just how elastic the relationship was between science and
pseudoscience, genius and quackery. Offering a veritable
Wunderkammer, the authors collected here train their sights both on
curious fields of study (from pogonolgy, the science of beards, to
Spiritualism) and curiouser people (from a government spy on
undercover assignment in Morocco dressed as a Moorish prince to a
hypnotic huckster who dupes the queen regent). With other authors
focusing on science fiction dystopias, mystical journeys, and
anatomical symbology, Fringe Discourses reveals the Spanish
nineteenth century for the intellectual Wild West it was.
U.S. Army Hospital Center 804’ tells the story of five U.S. Army
hospitals located on the Shropshire/Flintshire border during World
War II: Llanerch Panna, Penley, Iscoyd Park, Oteley Deer Park and
Halston Hall. They were built by British contractors during 1942-44
and used by American hospital units until the end of the war in
Europe. When the American units left the area some of the hospital
sites were used by displaced Poles. For a few months at the end of
1944/beginning of 1945 the hospital at Iscoyd Park treated German
Prisoners of War. The headquarters of the 5 hospitals - Hospital
Center 804 was first located in Gwemheylod (Flintshire) and later
moved to Whitchurch (Shropshire). U.S. ARMY HOSPITAL CENTER 804 An
AawMolltis U& Military Hospitals in lb. This book looks at the
day to day activities at the hospitals using archive material and
accounts and previously unpublished photos from those who were
there at the time and their relatives. It also looks in depth at
the stories of some of the patient-soldiers who passed through the
hospitals. It touches on the impact the occupants of the camps and
other U.S. camps in the area, had on the surrounding towns, with
particular regard to Wrexham in Flintshire.
"The Friendly Invasion of Leominster" relates the activities of a
number of American units based in Leominster during World War II.
During its history the Herefordshire market town had been no
stranger to invasions from across the Welsh border, but in 1943 it
was to encounter an incursion of another type. The invasion of U.S.
soldiers was a friendly one, although not all of Leominster's
residents recognised it as such at the time. On the outskirts of
Leominster, Barons Cross became home to the doctors and nurses of
the 76th and 135th U.S. Army General Hospitals and patients from
the hostilities on the Continent. In the build up to D. Day,
American units occupied camps in the grounds of Berrington Hall and
in the town. Some of these units, such as the 5th Ranger Battalion
and the 90th Infantry Division were to play a major part in the D.
Day landings. Others, such as the 7th Armored Division and the
736th Field Artillery Battalion landed after D. Day and took part
in the liberation of France. This book describes each unit's time
in Leominster, using eyewitness accounts and photographs, and then
follows the unit across the English Channel and through Europe.
'They Also Serve Who Stand And Wait' tells the story of the U.S.
Replacement Depot at Pheasey Farms Estate in Great Barr, Birmingham
during World War II. Part of the half-built housing estate was
requisitioned by the British forces at the outbreak of the war and
in 1942 the first group of American soldiers moved in. The book is
a fascinating insight into the day to day activity on the base,
with many moving accounts from those involved, and also deals with
the impact that the American soldiers had on the surrounding area
of Walsall and Birmingham.
Camp Foxley tells the history of the military camp built in the
grounds of Foxley Manor House, Herefordshire, from the outbreak of
the Second World War until the late 1960s when it was demolished.
During the war the camp saw the arrival and departure of several
Canadian and American military units. From 1944 to 1945 two
American hospitals based there received casualties from the
European Theatre of Operations. After the war the camp was used to
house Polish refugees who were later joined by homeless English
families. In the late 1960s the temporary camp, which had been
built only to last for the duration of the war, was finally closed
and the last remaining occupants were found homes in Hereford. The
book tells of the day to day activities on the base, using accounts
and previously unpublished photos from those involved. It also
deals with the impact that the occupants had on the surrounding
area of Herefordshire.
Army Force Station 522, at Beakes Road, Smethwick, Staffordshire,
was created on 25th August 1943 in order to meet the increasing
demands of the United States Army Air Force in the European Theatre
of Operations. Situated at least 50 miles from the nearest USA Air
Force base, its Midlands location was appropriate for the movement
of equipment throughout the country. Also, its distance from the
airfields gave the depot a degree of security and it was not bombed
during its American occupation. The base was in use until October
1945 as a storage, supply, and repair depot for Air Force
equipment. It was responsible for supplying all the radio and radar
equipment for the American air bases around the country. After
D-Day a contingent of men from Smethwick was sent to the continent
where they carried out similar duties. This title chronicles the
day-to-day running of USAAF Station 522, and recounts the
experiences of the men of the 879th, 892nd and 908th Signal Depot
Companies that were based there. It also looks at the sociological
effects that the American unit had on the locality of Smethwick and
Bearwood, one of these being the numerous Anglo-American weddings.
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