Vicksburg Spy, Or, Found and Lost
Author: Edward Willett
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Published: 1864
Total Pages: 60
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Author: Edward Willett
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Published: 1864
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wesley K. Wark
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1135186979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book won the Canadian Crime Writers' Arthur Ellis Award for the Best Genre Criticism/Reference book of 1991. This collection of essays is an attempt to explore the history of spy fiction and spy films and investigate the significance of the ideas they contain. The volume offers new insights into the development and symbolism of British spy fiction.
Author: Alice Fahs
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780807854631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlice Fahs explores a little-known and fascinating side of the Civil War - the outpouring of popular literature inspired by the conflict. From 1861 to 1865, authors and publishers in both the North and the South produced a remarkable variety of war-related compositions, including poems, songs, children's stories, romances, novels, histories, and even humorous pieces. Fahs mines these rich but long-neglected resources to recover the diversity of the war's political and social meanings. Instead of narrowly portraying the Civil War as a clash between two great, white armies, popular literature offered a wide range of representations through which to consider the conflict, as Fahs demonstrates. Works that explored the war's devastating impact on white women's lives, for example, proclaimed the importance of their experiences on the home front, while popular writings that celebrated black manhood and heroism in the wake of emancipation helped readers begin to imagine new roles for blacks in American life. By providing subjects and characters with which a broad spectrum of people could identify, popular literature invited ordinary Americans to envision themselves as active participants in the war and helped shape new modes of imagining the relationships of diverse individuals to the nation.
Author: James A. Marten
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2003-04-04
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1851095020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA revealing compilation of essays documenting the effects of the Civil War and its aftermath on Americans—young and old, black and white, northern and southern. Civil War America: Voices from the Homefront describes the myriad ways in which the Civil War affected both Northern and Southern civilians. A unique collection of essays that include diary entries, memoirs, letters, and magazine articles chronicle the personal experiences of soldiers and slaves, parents and children, nurses, veterans, and writers. Exploring such wide-ranging topics as sanitary fairs in the North, illustrated weeklies, children playing soldier, and the care of postwar orphans, most stories communicate some element of change, such as the destruction of old racial relationships, the challenge to Southern whites' complacency, and the expansion of government power. Although some of the subjects are well known—Edmund Ruffin, Louisa May Alcott, Henry Cabot Lodge, Booker T. Washington—most of the witnesses presented in these essays are relatively unknown men, women, and children who help to broaden our understanding of the war and its effects far beyond the front lines.
Author: Paul Alan Cimbala
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780823221950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCimbala (history, Fordham U., New York) and Miller (history, Saint Joseph's U., Philadelphia) introduce a dozen contributions on the Civil War battlefront's effects on the Northern homefront. Authors (some from the Northern US) explore the war's impact on such areas as journalism, popular literature, bond drive-construction of patriotism, Republican ideology on race, women's growing sense of entitlement, the Smithsonian Institution, dissent, laws on the return of slaves to the South, and the Federal system. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: James Marten
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2000-11-15
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 0807898600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChildren--white and black, northern and southern--endured a vast and varied range of experiences during the Civil War. Children celebrated victories and mourned defeats, tightened their belts and widened their responsibilities, took part in patriotic displays and suffered shortages and hardships, fled their homes to escape enemy invaders and snatched opportunities to run toward the promise of freedom. Offering a fascinating look at how children were affected by our nation's greatest crisis, James Marten examines their toys and games, their literature and schoolbooks, the letters they exchanged with absent fathers and brothers, and the hardships they endured. He also explores children's politicization, their contributions to their homelands' war efforts, and the lessons they took away from the war. Drawing on the childhoods of such diverse Americans as Jane Addams, Booker T. Washington, and Theodore Roosevelt, and on sources that range from diaries and memoirs to children's "amateur newspapers," Marten examines the myriad ways in which the Civil War shaped the lives of a generation of American children. "An original-minded, skillfully and suggestively presented history, haunting in its detailed unfolding of a war that put so many already vulnerable youngsters in danger, but elicited from some of them, as well, impressively sensitive, responsive thoughts, gestures, and deeds in what became, as this extraordinary book's title insists, their civil war.--Journal of American History "James Marten's thoroughly researched and engagingly written study . . . stands as one of the most exciting studies to emerge in the last dozen years. . . . Marten has taken a topic ignored by both Civil War historians and historians of childhood and crafted an engaging, masterful, nuanced, and readable study that will not quickly leave the reader's mind or heart.--American Studies "The first comprehensive account of Civil War children. . . . Thoroughly researched and nicely illustrated, The Children's Civil War will be a touchstone for historians and generalists who seek to gain a fuller understanding of life on the home front between 1861 and 1865.--Civil War History The Children's Civil War is a poignant and fascinating look at childhood during our nation's greatest crisis. Using sources that include diaries, memoirs, and letters, James Marten examines the wartime experiences of young people--boys and girls, black and white, northern and southern--and traces the ways in which the Civil War shaped the lives of a generation of American children. -->
Author: New York Public Library
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-05-28
Total Pages: 175
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Beadle Collection of Dime Novels is a huge listing of which books fell into the "dime novel" category. One finds names and authors and data about publication, all neatly classified for anyone who wishes to find any favorite book.
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Published: 1864
Total Pages: 1014
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 120
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Published: 1864
Total Pages: 414
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