Field Of Honor
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Fields Of Honor
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Author : Edwin C. Bearss
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2007
Fields Of Honor written by Edwin C. Bearss and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Bearss presents the story of the Civil War as he has in the battlefield tours he has conducted for many years. A former chief historian of the National Parks Service, he chronicles 14 crucial battles. The text is augmented by 80 black-and-white photographs and 19 maps.
A Campaign Of Giants The Battle For Petersburg
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Author : A. Wilson Greene
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2025-04-04
A Campaign Of Giants The Battle For Petersburg written by A. Wilson Greene and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-04 with History categories.
Grinding, bloody, and ultimately decisive, the Petersburg Campaign was the Civil War’s longest and among its most complex. A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg offers a gripping, comprehensive history of the decisive campaign in the eastern theater. In this second of three volumes, A. Wilson Greene narrates the critical months from August through October 1864, during which Ulysses S. Grant’s army group launched three major offensives against Robert E. Lee’s defenses around Petersburg and the Confederate capital in Richmond. The Confederates counterpunched after each Union advance and conducted a spectacular cavalry raid that netted almost 2,500 cattle from Federal grazing grounds. But as winter approached, Grant had captured one of Lee’s primary supply routes and extended the lines around Petersburg and Richmond to some thirty-five miles. Supported by thirty-four detailed maps, Greene’s narrative chronicles these bloody engagements using many previously unpublished primary accounts from common soldiers and ranking officers alike. The struggle for Petersburg is often characterized as a siege, but Greene’s narrative demonstrates that it was dynamic, involving maneuver and combat equal in intensity to that of any major Civil War operation.
A Field Of Honor
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Author : Gregory S. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2005-01-22
A Field Of Honor written by Gregory S. Brown and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-22 with History categories.
Gregory S. Brown's A Field of Honor: The Identities of Writers, Court Culture and Public Theater in the French Intellectual Field from Racine to the Revolution offers a multilevel study of the intellectual, social, and institutional contexts of dramatic authorship and the world of playwrights in 18th-century Paris. Brown deftly interweaves research in archival and printed materials, case studies of individual authorial strategies, the rich, often contentious historiography on the French Enlightenment and contemporary cultural theory and criticism. Drawing on a sophisticated array of recent studies, Brown positions his work against and between the grain of alternative approaches and interpretations. He combines scholarship on the history of the book with analyses of political culture and cultural identity, leaving the reader with a strong and revealing appreciation for the tensions and crosscurrents staged at the center of the 18th-century "republic of letters."
Affairs Of Honor
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Author : Joanne B. Freeman
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2002-01-01
Affairs Of Honor written by Joanne B. Freeman and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with History categories.
Offering a reassessment of the tumultuous culture of politics on the national stage during America's early years, when Jefferson, Burr, and Hamilton were among the national leaders, Freeman shows how the rituals and rhetoric of honor provides ground rules for political combat. Illustrations.
The Old South Frontier
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Author : Donald P. Mcneilly
language : en
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Release Date : 2000-07-01
The Old South Frontier written by Donald P. Mcneilly and has been published by University of Arkansas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-07-01 with History categories.
In this deeply researched and well-written study, Donald P. McNeilly examines how moderately wealthy planters and sons of planters immigrated into the virtually empty lands of Arkansas, seeking their fortune and to establish themselves as the leaders of a new planter aristocracy west of the Mississippi River. These men, sometimes alone, sometimes with family, and usually with slaves, sought the best land possible, cleared it, planted their crops, and erected crude houses and other buildings. Life was difficult for these would-be leaders of society and their families, and especially hard for the slaves who toiled to create fields in which they labored to produce a crop. McNeilly argues that by the time of Arkansas's statehood in 1836, planters and large farmers had secured a hold over their frontier home, and that between 1840 and the Civil War, planters solidified their hold on politics, economics, and society in Arkansas. The author takes a topical approach to the subject, with chapters on migration, slavery, non-planter whites, politics, and the secession crisis of 1860–1861. McNeilly offers a first-rate analysis of the creation of a white, cotton-based society in Arkansas, shedding light not only on the southern frontier, but also on the established Old South before the Civil War.
The Vermont Brigade In The Seven Days
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Author : Paul G. Zeller
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2019-01-03
The Vermont Brigade In The Seven Days written by Paul G. Zeller and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-03 with History categories.
The Vermont Brigade, sometimes referred to as the "First Vermont Brigade" or the "Old Brigade," fought its first full-brigade engagement in the Seven Days' battles. The leaders, as well as the rank and file, were inexperienced in warfare, but through sheer grit and determination they made a name for themselves as one of the hardest-fighting units in the Army of the Potomac. Using soldiers' letters, diaries, and service and pension records, this book gives a soldier's-eye-view of the Virginia summer heat, days of marching with very little rest or nourishment, and the fear and exhilaration of combat. Also included are the stories of 29 men that were wounded or killed and how the tragedies affected their families.
The Art Of The Network
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Author : Paul D. McLean
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2007-12-07
The Art Of The Network written by Paul D. McLean and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-07 with Social Science categories.
Writing letters to powerful people to win their favor and garner rewards such as political office, tax relief, and recommendations was an institution in Renaissance Florence; the practice was an important tool for those seeking social mobility, security, and recognition by others. In this detailed study of political and social patronage in fifteenth-century Florence, Paul D. McLean shows that patronage was much more than a pursuit of specific rewards. It was also a pursuit of relationships and of a self defined in relation to others. To become independent in Renaissance Florence, one first had to become connected. With The Art of the Network, McLean fills a gap in sociological scholarship by tracing the historical antecedents of networking and examining the concept of self that accompanies it. His analysis of patronage opens into a critique of contemporary theories about social networks and social capital, and an exploration of the sociological meaning of “culture.” McLean scrutinized thousands of letters to and from Renaissance Florentines. He describes the social protocols the letters reveal, paying particular attention to the means by which Florentines crafted credible presentations of themselves. The letters, McLean contends, testify to the development not only of new forms of self-presentation but also of a new kind of self to be presented: an emergent, “modern” conception of self as an autonomous agent. They also bring to the fore the importance that their writers attached to concepts of honor, and the ways that they perceived themselves in relation to the Florentine state.
An Irish Soldier S Patriotic Journey
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Author : Richard Wagner
language : en
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Release Date : 2017-11-03
An Irish Soldier S Patriotic Journey written by Richard Wagner and has been published by Archway Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
John Doran wrote to the United States Bureau of Pensions toward the end of his life with a pleading message: I have been compelled to cease all work, and I am unable to support myself and family on the small pension allowed me. I am a broken-down old man and pray for an increase. It was a sad end for an Irishman who had come to America in 1857 looking for a better lifesomeone who learned the trade of iron molding before enlisting in the First Regiment of United States Artillery. Doran participated in most Civil War encounters from Fort Sumter to Appomattox, earning promotions from private to sergeant while serving in the fighting first until 1874. During the war, he suffered starvation, sleep deprivation, extreme fatigue, an eye injury impairing his vision, a foot injury causing a debilitating limp, an ear injury, and numerous other infirmities in the line of duty. Somehow, he survived to return to his family and iron molding in Meriden, Connecticut, in 1874. But injuries haunted him, and he was forced to give up manual labor and fight for the next twenty-one years for a small stipend for his military service.
Eerdmans Dictionary Of The Bible
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Author : David Noel Freedman
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2000-12-31
Eerdmans Dictionary Of The Bible written by David Noel Freedman and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-12-31 with Religion categories.
The Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible gathers nearly 5,000 alphabetically ordered articles that thoroughly yet clearly explain all the books, persons, places, and significant terms found in the Bible. The Dictionary also explores the background of each biblical book and related writings and discusses cultural, natural, geographical, and literary phenomenae matters that Bible students at all levels may encounter in reading or discussion. Nearly 600 first-rate Bible authorities have contributed to the Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible. Intended as a tool for practical Bible use, this illustrated dictionary reflects recent archaeological discoveries and the breadth of current biblical scholarship, including insights from critical analysis of literary, historical, sociological, and other methodological issues. The editorial team has also incorporated articles that explore and interpret important focuses of biblical theology, text and transmission, Near Eastern archaeology, extrabiblical writings, and pertinent ecclesiastical traditions - all of which help make the Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible the most comprehensive and up-to-date one-volume Bible dictionary on the market today.
The Pen The Sword And The Law
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Author : David S. Parker
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2022-04-28
The Pen The Sword And The Law written by David S. Parker and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-28 with History categories.
The duel, and the codes of honour that governed duelling, functioned for decades in many European and Latin American countries as a shadow legal system, regulating in practice what legislators felt free to say and what journalists felt free to write. Yet the duel was also an act of potentially deadly violence and a challenge to the authority of statutory law. When duelling became widespread in early twentieth-century Uruguay, legislators facing this dilemma chose the unique and radical path of legalization. The Pen, the Sword, and the Law explores how the only country in the world to decriminalize duelling managed the tension between these informal but widely accepted “gentlemanly laws” and its own criminal code. The duel, which remained legal until 1992, was meant to ensure civility in politics and decorum in the press, but it often failed to achieve either. Drawing on rich and detailed newspaper reports of duels and challenges, parliamentary debates, legal records, private papers, and interviews, David Parker examines the role of pistols and sabres in shaping the everyday workings of a raucous public sphere. Demonstrating that the duel was no simple throwback to archaic conceptions of masculine honour and chivalry, The Pen, the Sword, and the Law illustrates how duelling went hand in hand with democracy and freedom of the press in one of South America’s most progressive nations.