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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jonathan h ebel”
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  • Dixie's Great War

    World War I and the American South

    by John Giggie, Andrew Huebner, Jessica L Adler, Nancy K. Bristow, Jonathan H. Ebel, Jennifer D. Keene, Ross A. Kennedy, Derryn Moten, Michael S. Neiberg0, Martin T. Olliff1, Steven Trout2, Ruth Smith Truss3, Kara Dixon Vuic4, Chad L. Williams5, Jay M. Winter6 ...
    Series series War, Memory, and Culture
    Examining the First World War through the lens of the American SouthHow did World War I affect the American South? Did southerners experience the war in a particular way? How did regional considerations and, more generally, southern values and culture impact the wider war effort? Was there a distinctive southern experience of WWI?Scholars considered these questions during “Dixie’s Great War,” a ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • G.I. Messiahs

    Soldiering, War, and American Civil Religion

    by Jonathan H. Ebel ...
    Jonathan Ebel has long been interested in how religion helps individuals and communities render meaningful the traumatic experiences of violence and war. In this new work, he examines cases from the Great War to the present day and argues that our notions of what it means to be an American soldier are not just strongly religious, but strongly Christian.     Drawing on a vast array of sources, he ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Faith in the Fight

    Religion and the American Soldier in the Great War

    by Jonathan H. Ebel ...
    Faith in the Fight tells a story of religion, soldiering, suffering, and death in the Great War. Recovering the thoughts and experiences of American troops, nurses, and aid workers through their letters, diaries, and memoirs, Jonathan Ebel describes how religion--primarily Christianity--encouraged these young men and women to fight and die, sustained them through war's chaos, and shaped their ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • From Jeremiad to Jihad

    Religion, Violence, and America

    Edited by John D. Carlson, Jonathan H. Ebel ...
    Violence has been a central feature of America’s history, culture, and place in the world. It has taken many forms: from state-sponsored uses of force such as war or law enforcement, to revolution, secession, terrorism and other actions with important political and cultural implications. Religion also holds a crucial place in the American experience of violence, particularly for those who have ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • From Dust They Came

    Government Camps and the Religion of Reform in New Deal California

    by Jonathan H. Ebel ...
    Series series North American Religions
    The untold story of the federal government’s Depression-era effort to redeem Dust Bowl refugees in rural California through religionIn the midst of the Great Depression, punished by crippling drought and deepening poverty, hundreds of thousands of families left the Great Plains and the Southwest to look for work in California’s rich agricultural valleys. In response to the scene of destitute white ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

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  • This Republic of Suffering

    Death and the American Civil War (National Book Award Finalist)

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    Series series Vintage Civil War Library
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  • Against Our Will

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  • War without Mercy

    Race and Power in the Pacific War (NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER)

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  • Looking for the Good War

    American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness

    by Elizabeth D. Samet ...
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  • War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar & Peace Writing (LOA #278)

    Edited by Lawrence Rosenwald ...
    A powerful collection of essential American antiwar writings, from the Revolution to the war on terror—featuring over 150 eloquent, provocative voices for peaceLibrary of America presents an unprecedented tribute to a great American literary tradition. War has been a reality of the American experience from the founding of the nation and in every generation there have been dedicated and passionate ... Read more

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