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  • The Civil War Guerrilla

    Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth

    Series series New Directions in Southern History
    Civil War historians shed new light on the importance of guerrilla combat across the south in this "useful and fascinating work" ( Choice).Touching states from Virginia to New Mexico, guerrilla warfare played a significant yet underexamined role in the Civil War. Guerrilla fighters fought for both the Union and the Confederacy—as well as their own ethnic groups, tribes, or families. They were ... Leer más

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  • Bushwhackers

    Guerrilla Warfare, Manhood, and the Household in Civil War Missouri

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    Series series The Civil War Era in the South
    Bushwhackers adds to the growing body of literature that examines the various irregular conflicts that took place during the American Civil War. Author Joseph M. Beilein Jr. looks at the ways in which several different bands of guerrillas across Missouri conducted their war in concert with their house- holds and their female kin who provided logistical support in many forms. Whether noted fighters ... Leer más

    $28.49 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Rebels and Regimes

    The Nature of Violent Resistance in the Nineteenth Century

    Rebels and Regimes presents a global view of the nature of violent resistance throughout the nineteenth century. The volume’s breadth and scope reveal commonalities and differences among regimes and insurgents in their different contexts, offering a view that the participants themselves never had. The collection is composed of ten essays, each focused on a specific conflict or period of colonial ... Leer más

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  • Vision and Resilience

    A Story of Remarkable Growth and Transformation at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College

    Vision and Resilience recounts the remarkable turnaround of a satellite campus that became one of the brightest spots in the Penn State University system: Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. Covering the period from 1980 to 2010, this story serves as a blueprint for administrators who aspire to grow their institutions in challenging times.Joseph M. Beilein Jr. writes about how, at a time when ... Leer más

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  • A Man by Any Other Name

    William Clarke Quantrill and the Search for American Manhood

    Series Libro 25 - UnCivil Wars
    Few men of the Civil War era were as complicated or infamous as William Clarke Quantrill. Most who know him recognize him as the architect of the Confederate raid on Lawrence, Kansas, in August 1863 that led to the murder of 180 mostly unarmed men and boys. Before that, though, Quantrill led a transient life, shifting from one masculine form to another. He played the role of fastidious ... Leer más

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  • The Guerrilla Hunters

    Irregular Conflicts during the Civil War

    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Throughout the Civil War, irregular warfare—including the use of hit-and-run assaults, ambushes, and raiding tactics—thrived in localized guerrilla fights within the Border States and the Confederate South. The Guerrilla Hunters offers a comprehensive overview of the tactics, motives, and actors in these conflicts, from the Confederate-authorized Partisan Rangers, a military force directed to spy ... Leer más

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  • Writing History with Lightning

    Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America

    Films possess virtually unlimited power for crafting broad interpretations of American history. Nineteenth-century America has proven especially conducive to Hollywood imaginations, producing indelible images like the plight of Davy Crockett and the defenders of the Alamo, Pickett’s doomed charge at Gettysburg, the proliferation and destruction of plantation slavery in the American South, Custer’s ... Leer más

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  • William Gregg's Civil War

    The Battle to Shape the History of Guerrilla Warfare

    Series series
    During the Civil War, William H. Gregg served as William Clarke Quantrill’s de facto adjutant from December 1861 until the spring of 1864, making him one of the closest people to the Confederate guerrilla leader. “Quantrill’s raiders” were a partisan ranger outfit best known for their brutal guerrilla tactics, which made use of Native American field skills. Whether it was the origins of Quantrill ... Leer más

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  • Household War

    How Americans Lived and Fought the Civil War

    Series series
    Household War restores the centrality of households to the American Civil War. The essays in the volume complicate the standard distinctions between battlefront and homefront, soldier and civilian, and men and women. From this vantage point, they look at the interplay of family and politics, studying the ways in which the Civil War shaped and was shaped by the American household. They explore how ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

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    General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You couldn't get American soldiers today to make an attack like that." Why did those men risk certain death, ... Leer más

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  • Men of Color to Arms!

    Black Soldiers, Indian Wars, and the Quest for Equality

    The story of the black soldiers who helped save the Union, conquer the West, and build the nation.In 1863, at the height of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass promised African Americans that serving in the military offered a sure path to freedom. Once a black man became a soldier, Douglass declared, “there is no power on earth or under the earth which can deny that he has earned the right to ... Leer más

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