Bodies in Blue. Disability in the Civil War North, Paperback - Sarah Handley-Cousins

In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is synonymous with amputation. But war affects the body in countless ways. Sarah Handley-Cousins e...

Reducere. When the Civil War began, Northern soldiers and civilians alike sought a framework to help make sense of the chaos that confronted them. Many turne...

Reducere. Similar in scope to H. H. Cunningham's Doctors in Gray, George Worthington Adams' Doctors in Blue, originally published more than forty years ago a...

From the drama of blockade-running to graphic descriptions of battles on the state's islands and sounds, this book portrays the explosive events th...

This groundbreaking collection imagines disabled bodies as ""bodies in commotion"" - bodies that dance across artistic and discursive boundaries, c...

Reducere. Bushwhackers recounts hundreds of incidents that brought the Civil War home to the mountains of the Old North State. Some are violent, some humorou...

Reducere. "First at Bethel, farthest at Gettysburg and Chickamauga and last at Appomattox" is a phrase that is often used to encapsulate the role of North Ca...

Reducere. In the mountains of western North Carolina, the Civil War was fought on different terms than those found throughout most of the South. Though relat...

A fascinating and entertaining anthology about the American Civil War, throwing new light on all aspects of the war, and how it affected America an...

Reducere. What the Boys in Blue Left Behind is a long overdue pictorial encyclopedia. This book reveals memorabilia which the Civil War veterans left to us. ...

Did you know that blue eyes, baldness, bad breath and boils were all considered bodily 'blights' by Medieval Arabs, as were cross eyes, lameness an...

Reducere. How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S...

Reducere. This book is about the other Texas, not the state known for its cowboy conservatism, but a mid-twentieth-century hotbed of community organizing, li...

"Describes the Siege of Vicksburg and the Battle of Gettysburg, including Pickett's Charge, that turned the tide of the American Civil War. Include...

Reducere. As William T. Sherman's Union troops began their campaign for Atlanta in the spring of 1864, they encountered Confederate forces employing field fo...

Reducere. During the Civil War, Union and Confederate politicians, military commanders, everyday soldiers, and civilians claimed their approach to the confli...

Articulating Bodies shows how Victorian fiction's narrative form as well as narrative theme to negotiate how to categorize bodies, both constructin...

Reducere. Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Heather Cox Richardson argues instead that cl...

Reducere. When the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettled in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s, it was joined by enslaved Black people--th...

Reducere. When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing fo...

Reducere. Deserve s] a place on every Civil War bookshelf.--New York Times Book Review " Trulock] brings her subject alive and escorts him through a brillian...

Reducere. In Fighting for Citizenship, Brian Taylor complicates existing interpretations of why black men fought in the Civil War. Civil War-era African Amer...

DescriptionAs many as 20, 000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various soc...

DescriptionFew issues created greater consensus among Civil War-era northerners than the belief that the secessionists had committed treason. But a...

Reducere. The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north t...

Beginning in 1939, young Solly in London exchanges letters with his teenaged cousin, Bernie, in Poland. While Solly is evacuated and adjusts to lif...

Reducere. While the Civil War is famous for epic battles involving massive armies engaged in conventional warfare, A Savage Conflict is the first work to tre...

Reducere. "The Commentaries on the Gallic War" is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar des...

Reducere. DescriptionMore than 150 years after its end, we still struggle to understand the full extent of the human toll of the Civil War and the psychologi...

From battlefields, boxcars, and forgotten warehouses to notorious prison camps, prisoners seemed to be everywhere during the American Civil War. Li...

DescriptionNovel Bodies examines how disability shapes the British literary history of sexuality. Jason Farr shows that various eighteenth-century ...

Reducere. To understand the long march of events in North Carolina from secession to surrender is to understand the entire Civil War--a personal war waged by...

Reducere. When a Civil War substitute broker told business associates that "Men is cheep here to Day, " he exposed an unsettling contradiction at the heart o...

The nineteenth century saw a marked change in how Americans viewed and understood the human form. These new ways of understanding the body reflect ...

Reducere. Too far north, the great state of Maine did not witness any Civil War battles. However, Mainers contributed to the war in many important ways. From...

I Freed Myself: African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War Era - David Williams

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sarah F. RoseDuring the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities came to be ...

Reducere. An examination of the origin and legacies of the captive exchange economy within and among the Native Americans and Euro-American communities throu...

This anthology brings together extensive selections of poetry by the five most prolific and prominent women poets of the English Civil War period: ...

With a wealth of illustrations, a nostalgic look back at the BR Blue era of British Rail in northern England.Publisher: Amberley PublishingAuthor(s...

Reducere. DescriptionTravelers can follow the routes of both Union and Confederate armies, discover monuments in small towns and appreciate the impact of the...