Search Results - "American Civil War

Like grass before the scythe the life and death of Sgt. William Remmel, 121st New York Infantry / by Remmel, William

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Time full of trial the Roanoke Island freedmen's colony, 1862-1867 / by Click, Patricia Catherine

“…North Carolina History Civil War, 1861-1865 African Americans.…”
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What's wrong with democracy? from Athenian practice to American worship / by Samons, Loren J.

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Journey into darkness genocide in Rwanda / by Odom, Thomas P. (Thomas Paul), 1953-

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White women, Black men : illicit sex in the nineteenth-century South / by Hodes, Martha Elizabeth

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Divided counsel : the Anglo-American response to Communist victory in China / by Martin, Edwin W.

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Enduring legacy rhetoric and ritual of the lost cause / by Towns, W. Stuart, 1939-

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Desertion and the American soldier, 1776-2006 by Fantina, Robert

Table of Contents: “…The Civil War -- Nine categories of reasons for desertion -- Union policy on desertion during the Civil War -- 5. …”
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American law in the 20th century by Friedman, Lawrence Meir, 1930-

Table of Contents: “…Structure, power, and form : American public law, 1900-1932 -- The legal profession in the early twentieth century -- The law of business and commerce -- Crime and punishment in the new century -- Race relations and civil liberties -- The Roosevelt Revolution -- War and postwar : prosperity and the flowering of the welfare state -- Crime and criminal justice in the postwar world -- Courts, trials, and procedures in the twentieth century -- Race relations and civil rights -- The liability explosion : personal-injury law in the twentieth century -- Business law in an age of change -- The law of property -- Family law and family life -- Internal legal culture : the legal profession -- American legal culture in the twentieth century -- Backward and forward : counterrevolution and its aftershocks -- Getting around and spreading the word -- Law : an American export -- Taking stock.…”
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Castles, battles, & bombs how economics explains military history / by Brauer, Jurgen, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Economics -- Economics -- Principle I: Opportunity cost -- Principle II: Expected marginal costs and benefits -- Principle III: Substitution -- Principle IV: Diminishing marginal returns -- Principle V: asymmetric information and hidden characteristics -- Principle VI: Hidden actions and incentive alignments -- Conclusion: economics--and military history -- The high Middle Ages, 1000-1300: The case of the medieval castle and the opportunity cost of warfare -- Opportunity cost and warfare -- The ubiquity of castles -- The cost of castling -- The advantages of castles -- The cost of armies -- Castle building and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The Renaissance, 1300-1600: the case of the condottieri and the military labor market -- The principal-agent problem -- Demand, supply, and recruitment -- Contracts and pay -- Control and contract evolution -- The development of permanent armies -- Condottieri and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of battle, 1618-1815: the case of costs, benefits, and the decision to offer battle -- Expected marginal costs and benefits of battle -- The 1600s: Gustavus Adolphus and Raimondo de Montecuccoli -- The 1700s: Marlborough, de Saxe, and Frederick the Great -- Napoleonic warfare -- The age of battle and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of revolution, 1789-1914: the case of the American Civil War and the economics of information asymmetry -- Information and warfare -- North, South, and the search for information -- Major Eastern campaigns through Gettysburg -- Grant in Virginia -- The American Civil War and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of the world wars, 1914-1945: the case of diminishing marginal returns to the strategic bombing of Germany in World War II -- A strategic bombing production function -- Bombing German war production -- Bombing the supply chain and the civilian economy -- Bombing German morale -- Assessing the effect of strategic bombing -- Strategic bombing and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of the Cold War, 1945-1991: the case of capital-labor substitution and France's Force de Frappe -- History of the Force de Frappe -- The force post-De Gaulle -- Justifying the force -- The force's effect on France's conventional arms -- Substituting nuclear for conventional forces -- The Force de Frappe and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- Economics and military history in the twenty-first century -- Economics of terrorism -- Economics of military manpower -- Economics of private military companies -- Economics, historiography, and military history -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.…”
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The Cambridge introduction to American literary realism by Barrish, Phillip

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Lincoln's proclamation emancipation reconsidered /

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African American life in the Georgia lowcountry the Atlantic world and the Gullah Geechee /

Table of Contents: “…Singleton -- A spirit of enterprise : the African American challenge to the Confederate project in Civil War-era Savannah / Jacqueline Jones -- "The great cry of people is land!" …”
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A life crossing borders memoir of a Mexican-American Confederate : las memorias de un mexicoamericano en la Confederación / by Tafolla, Santiago, 1837-1911

“…United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives, Mexican American.…”
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Strangers on the Western Front Chinese workers in the Great War / by Xu, Guoqi

Table of Contents: “…Great War and great crisis : China, Britain, France, and the "laborers as soldiers" strategy -- The recruitment and European odyssey of the men for Britain and France -- The hidden history of the secret Canadian pathway -- Work -- Treatment and perceptions -- Strangers in a strange world : Chinese lives in Europe -- American soldiers and Chinese laborers -- The association men and Chinese laborers -- The fusion of teaching and learning : students as teachers and vice versa -- A fusion of civilizations -- Appendix 1: Huimin contract with the French government -- Appendix 2: British contract -- Selected glossary.…”
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Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln a relationship in language, politics, and memory / by Blight, David W.

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Views from the dark side of American history by Fellman, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Madison daze -- Shadows of the Holocaust : Jewish American historians and the Black slave character -- At the nihilist edge : reflections on guerrilla warfare during the American Civil War -- Alligatormen and cardsharpers : deadly Southwestern history -- Robert E. …”
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Death of a nation American culture and the end of exceptionalism / by Noble, David W.

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Apples and ashes literature, nationalism, and the Confederate States of America / by Hutchison, Coleman, 1977-

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The insistent call : rhetorical moments in black anticolonialism, 1929-1937 / by Putnam, Aric, 1972-

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