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Martial Culture, Silver Screen analyzes war movies, one of the most
popular genres in American cinema, for what they reveal about the
narratives and ideologies that shape U.S. national identity. Edited
by Matthew Christopher Hulbert and Matthew E. Stanley, this volume
explores the extent to which the motion picture industry,
particularly Hollywood, has played an outsized role in the
construction and evolution of American self-definition. Moving
chronologically, eleven essays highlight cinematic versions of
military and cultural conflicts spanning from the American
Revolution to the War on Terror. Each focuses on a selection of
films about a specific war or historical period, often
foregrounding recent productions that remain understudied in the
critical literature on cinema, history, and cultural memory.
Scrutinizing cinema through the lens of nationalism and its
"invention of tradition", Martial Culture, Silver Screen considers
how movies possess the power to frame ideologies, provide social
coherence, betray collective neuroses and fears, construct
narratives of victimhood or heroism, forge communities of
remembrance, and cement tradition and convention. Hollywood war
films routinely present broad, identifiable narratives such as that
of the rugged pioneer or the "good war" through which filmmakers
invent representations of the past, establishing narratives that
advance discrete social and political functions in the present. As
a result, cinematic versions of wartime conflicts condition and
reinforce popular understandings of American national character as
it relates to violence, individualism, democracy, militarism,
capitalism, masculinity, race, class, and empire. Approaching war
movies as identity-forging apparatuses and tools of social power,
Martial Culture, Silver Screen lays bare how cinematic versions of
warfare have helped define for audiences what it means to be
American.
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
In recent years, Civil War veterans have emerged from historical
obscurity. Inspired by recent interest in memory studies and
energised by the ongoing neorevisionist turn, a vibrant new
literature has given the lie to the once-obligatory lament that the
postbellum lives of Civil War soldiers were irretrievable. Despite
this flood of historical scholarship, fundamental questions about
the essential character of Civil War veteranhood remain unanswered.
Moreover, because work on veterans has often proceeded from a
preoccupation with cultural memory, the Civil War's ex-soldiers
have typically been analysed as either symbols or producers of
texts. In The War Went On: Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War
Veterans, fifteen of the field's top scholars provide a more
nuanced and intimate look at the lives and experiences of these
former soldiers. Essays in this collection approach Civil War
veterans from oblique angles, including theater, political, and
disability history, as well as borderlands and memory studies.
Contributors examine the lives of Union and Confederate veterans,
African American veterans, former prisoners of war, amputees, and
ex-guerrilla fighters. They also consider postwar political
elections, veterans' business dealings, and even literary contests
between onetime enemies and among former comrades.
Australia and the World celebrates the pioneering role of Neville
Meaney in the formation and development of foreign relations
history in Australia and his profound influence on its study,
teaching and application.The contributors to the volume -
historians, practitioners of foreign relations and political
commentators, many of whom were taught by Meaney at the University
of Sydney over the years - focus especially on the interaction
between geopolitics, culture and ideology in shaping Australian and
American approaches to the world.Individual chapters examine a
number of major themes informing Neville Meaney's work, including
the sources and nature of Australia's British identity; the
hapless, if dedicated, efforts of Australian politicians, public
servants and intellectuals to reconcile this intense cultural
identity with Australia's strategic anxieties in the Asia-Pacific
region; and the sense of trauma created when the myth of
'Britishness' collapsed under the weight of new historical
circumstances in the 1960s. They survey relations between Australia
and the United States in the years after World War Two. Finally,
they assess the US perceptions of itself as an 'exceptional' nation
with a mission to spread democracy and liberty to the wider world
and the way in which this self-perception has influenced its
behaviour in international affairs.
CONTENTS: Introduction, Jean H. Baker and Charles W. Mitchell
"Border State, Border War: Fighting for Freedom and Slavery in
Antebellum Maryland," Richard Bell "Charity Folks and the Ghosts of
Slavery in Pre-Civil War Maryland," Jessica Millward "Confronting
Dred Scott: Seeing Citizenship from Baltimore," Martha S. Jones
"'Maryland Is This Day . . . True to the American Union' The
Election of 1860 and a Winter of Discontent," Charles W. Mitchell
"Baltimore's Secessionist Moment: Conservatism and Political
Networks in the Pratt Street Riot and Its Aftermath," Frank Towers
"Abraham Lincoln, Civil Liberties, and Maryland," Frank J. Williams
"The Fighting Sons of 'My Maryland' The Recruitment of Union
Regiments in Baltimore, 1861-1865," Timothy J. Orr "'What I
Witnessed Would Only Make You Sick' Union Soldiers Confront the
Dead at Antietam," Brian Matthew Jordan "Confederate Invasions of
Maryland," Thomas G. Clemens "Achieving Emancipation in Maryland,"
Jonathan W. White "Maryland's Women at War," Robert W. Schoeberlein
"The Failed Promise of Reconstruction," Sharita Jacobs Thompson
"'F--k the Confederacy' The Strange Career of Civil War Memory in
Maryland after 1865," Robert J. Cook
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
Animals mattered in the Civil War. Horses and mules powered the
Union and Confederate armies, providing mobility for wagons,
pulling artillery pieces, and serving as fighting platforms for
cavalrymen. Drafted to support the war effort, horses often died or
suffered terrible wounds on the battlefield. Raging diseases also
swept through army herds and killed tens of thousands of other
equines. In addition to weaponized animals such as horses, pets of
all kinds accompanied nearly every regiment during the war. Dogs
commonly served as unit mascots and were also used in combat
against the enemy. Living and fighting in the natural environment,
soldiers often encountered a variety of wild animals. They were
pestered by many types of insects, marveled at exotic fish while
being transported along the coasts, and took shots at alligators in
the swamps along the lower Mississippi River basin. Animal
Histories of the Civil War Era charts a path to understanding how
the animal world became deeply involved in the most divisive moment
in American history. In addition to discussions on the dominant
role of horses in the war, one essay describes the use of camels by
individuals attempting to spread slavery in the American Southwest
in the antebellum period. Another explores how smaller wildlife,
including bees and other insects, affected soldiers and were in
turn affected by them. One piece focuses on the congressional
debate surrounding the creation of a national zoo, while another
tells the story of how the famous show horse Beautiful Jim Key and
his owner, a former slave, exposed sectional and racial fault lines
after the war. Other topics include canines, hogs, vegetarianism,
and animals as veterans in post-Civil War America. The contributors
to this volume-scholars of animal history and Civil War
historians-argue for an animal-centered narrative to complement the
human-centered accounts of the war. Animal Histories of the Civil
War Era reveals that warfare had a poignant effect on animals. It
also argues that animals played a vital role as participants in the
most consequential conflict in American history. It is time to
recognize and appreciate the animal experience of the Civil War
period.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
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original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
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++++ Richmond: Her Glory And Her Graves: A Poem. In Two Parts,
Volume 1; Richmond: Her Glory And Her Graves: A Poem. In Two Parts;
Cornelia Jane Matthews Jordan Cornelia Jane Matthews Jordan
Richmond Medical Journal Print., 1867 History; General; History /
General; Richmond (Va.); United States
For centuries children of the West have been taught that sometime
in the 5th century Rome "fell" and with it, the world fell into the
Dark Ages. This is only partially true. The Western Roman Empire
did fade but in the East, in the old city of Byzantium on the
Bosphorus, the Romans would survive for a thousand years longer.
From Africanus is a work of historical fiction set in this "other"
Rome during the reign of Justinian the Great, the man known as'the
Last Roman'. The story follows Valentinian Constans from boyhood to
manhood and from the fishing village of Volerus to Constantinople,
just as the Nikka Riots explode about him. The Riots started as a
street protest and turned into a civil war aimed at removing
Justinian from power and ultimately, putting to death once and
forever the ancient Roman Empire.
Martial Culture, Silver Screen analyzes war movies, one of the most
popular genres in American cinema, for what they reveal about the
narratives and ideologies that shape U.S. national identity. Edited
by Matthew Christopher Hulbert and Matthew E. Stanley, this volume
explores the extent to which the motion picture industry,
particularly Hollywood, has played an outsized role in the
construction and evolution of American self-definition. Moving
chronologically, eleven essays highlight cinematic versions of
military and cultural conflicts spanning from the American
Revolution to the War on Terror. Each focuses on a selection of
films about a specific war or historical period, often
foregrounding recent productions that remain understudied in the
critical literature on cinema, history, and cultural memory.
Scrutinizing cinema through the lens of nationalism and its
"invention of tradition", Martial Culture, Silver Screen considers
how movies possess the power to frame ideologies, provide social
coherence, betray collective neuroses and fears, construct
narratives of victimhood or heroism, forge communities of
remembrance, and cement tradition and convention. Hollywood war
films routinely present broad, identifiable narratives such as that
of the rugged pioneer or the "good war" through which filmmakers
invent representations of the past, establishing narratives that
advance discrete social and political functions in the present. As
a result, cinematic versions of wartime conflicts condition and
reinforce popular understandings of American national character as
it relates to violence, individualism, democracy, militarism,
capitalism, masculinity, race, class, and empire. Approaching war
movies as identity-forging apparatuses and tools of social power,
Martial Culture, Silver Screen lays bare how cinematic versions of
warfare have helped define for audiences what it means to be
American.
For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have
concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers
returning triumphantly home. In a landmark work that challenges
sterilized portraits accepted for generations, Civil War historian
Brian Matthew Jordan creates an entirely new narrative. These
veterans- tending rotting wounds, battling alcoholism, campaigning
for paltry pensions- tragically realized that they stood as
unwelcome reminders to a new America eager to heal, forget, and
embrace the freewheeling bounty of the Gilded Age. Mining
previously untapped archives, Jordan uncovers anguished letters and
diaries, essays by amputees, and gruesome medical reports, all
deeply revealing of the American psyche. In the model of
twenty-first-century histories like Drew Gilpin Faust's This
Republic of Suffering or Maya Jasanoff 's Liberty's Exiles that
illuminate the plight of the common man, Marching Home makes almost
unbearably personal the rage and regret of Union veterans. Their
untold stories are critically relevant today.
For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have
concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers
returning triumphantly home. In a landmark work that challenges
sterilized portraits accepted for generations, Civil War historian
Brian Matthew Jordan creates an entirely new narrative. These
veterans tending rotting wounds, battling alcoholism, campaigning
for paltry pensions tragically realized that they stood as
unwelcome reminders to a new America eager to heal, forget, and
embrace the freewheeling bounty of the Gilded Age. Mining
previously untapped archives, Jordan uncovers anguished letters and
diaries, essays by amputees, and gruesome medical reports, all
deeply revealing of the American psyche.
In the model of twenty-first-century histories like Drew Gilpin
Faust s This Republic of Suffering or Maya Jasanoff s Liberty s
Exiles that illuminate the plight of the common man, Marching Home
makes almost unbearably personal the rage and regret of Union
veterans. Their untold stories are critically relevant today."
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