George Washington Williams
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780823233854
- eISBN:
- 9780823240807
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823233854.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Military History
This book (originally published in 1887) remains a classic text in African American literature and Civil War history. In it, George Washington Williams, who served in the U. S. Colored Troops, tells ...
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This book (originally published in 1887) remains a classic text in African American literature and Civil War history. In it, George Washington Williams, who served in the U. S. Colored Troops, tells the battle experiences of the almost 200,000 black men who fought for the Union cause. Determined to document the contributions of his fellow black soldiers, and to underscore the valor and manhood of his race, Williams gathered his material from the official records of U. S. and foreign governments, and from the orderly books and personal recollections of officers commanding Negro troops during the American Civil War. The new edition of this text includes an introductory essay that narrates and evaluates the book's contents, analyzes its reception by contemporary critics, and evaluates Williams's work within the context of its day and its place in current historiography.Less
This book (originally published in 1887) remains a classic text in African American literature and Civil War history. In it, George Washington Williams, who served in the U. S. Colored Troops, tells the battle experiences of the almost 200,000 black men who fought for the Union cause. Determined to document the contributions of his fellow black soldiers, and to underscore the valor and manhood of his race, Williams gathered his material from the official records of U. S. and foreign governments, and from the orderly books and personal recollections of officers commanding Negro troops during the American Civil War. The new edition of this text includes an introductory essay that narrates and evaluates the book's contents, analyzes its reception by contemporary critics, and evaluates Williams's work within the context of its day and its place in current historiography.
Deborah S. Cornelius
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780823233434
- eISBN:
- 9780823241767
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823233434.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Military History
The story of Hungary's participation in World War II is part of a much larger story—one that has never before been fully recounted for a non-Hungarian readership. The dismemberment of the Hungarian ...
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The story of Hungary's participation in World War II is part of a much larger story—one that has never before been fully recounted for a non-Hungarian readership. The dismemberment of the Hungarian Kingdom after its defeat in World War I resulted in the loss of two-thirds of its territory and three-fourths of its population. The loss, confirmed by the Treaty of Trianon, was never fully accepted by the Hungarian population, and the movement for revision of the treaty continued to dominate Hungarian political, social, and economic life. Hungary's geopolitical situation in Central Europe, surrounded by countries either occupied by or allied with Germany, determined that Hungary would become involved in the war, but the attempts to regain lost territories drew it into its alliance with Nazi Germany. With an economic boom and recovery of territory early in the war Hungarians deluded themselves that they had won their long-sought objective. Instead, in the final year of the war the country became a battleground between Nazi and Soviet forces, bringing widespread destruction and a genocidal war against Hungarian Jews, with further devastation under Soviet occupation. The 1947 Peace Treaty of Paris not only returned Hungary to its pre 1937 boundaries, but permitted Soviet troops to remain in the country. The troops were not withdrawn until June 16, 1990.Less
The story of Hungary's participation in World War II is part of a much larger story—one that has never before been fully recounted for a non-Hungarian readership. The dismemberment of the Hungarian Kingdom after its defeat in World War I resulted in the loss of two-thirds of its territory and three-fourths of its population. The loss, confirmed by the Treaty of Trianon, was never fully accepted by the Hungarian population, and the movement for revision of the treaty continued to dominate Hungarian political, social, and economic life. Hungary's geopolitical situation in Central Europe, surrounded by countries either occupied by or allied with Germany, determined that Hungary would become involved in the war, but the attempts to regain lost territories drew it into its alliance with Nazi Germany. With an economic boom and recovery of territory early in the war Hungarians deluded themselves that they had won their long-sought objective. Instead, in the final year of the war the country became a battleground between Nazi and Soviet forces, bringing widespread destruction and a genocidal war against Hungarian Jews, with further devastation under Soviet occupation. The 1947 Peace Treaty of Paris not only returned Hungary to its pre 1937 boundaries, but permitted Soviet troops to remain in the country. The troops were not withdrawn until June 16, 1990.
Earl Mulderink, III
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780823243341
- eISBN:
- 9780823243389
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823243341.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Military History
This book examines the social, political, economic, and military history of New Bedford, Massachusetts, in the nineteenth century, with a focus on the Civil War homefront from 1861 to 1865 and on the ...
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This book examines the social, political, economic, and military history of New Bedford, Massachusetts, in the nineteenth century, with a focus on the Civil War homefront from 1861 to 1865 and on the city's black community, soldiers, and veterans. It contributes to the growing body of Civil War studies that analyzes the “war at home” by focusing on the bustling center of the world's whaling industry in the nineteenth century. Using a broad chronological framework of the 1840s through the 1890s, the book contextualizes the rise and fall of New Bedford's whaling enterprise and details the war's multifaceted impacts between 1861 and 1865. One of its major goals is to explore the war's social history by examining how the conflict touched the city's residents—both white and black. Known before the war for both its wealth and its antislavery fervor, New Bedford offered a congenial home for a sizeable black community that experienced a “different Civil War” than did native-born whites. Drawing upon military pension files, published accounts, and welfare records, the book pays particular attention to soldiers and families connected with the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the “brave black regiment” (made famous by the Academy Award-winning 1989 film Glory) that helped shape national debates over black military enlistment, equal pay, and notions of citizenship. New Bedford's enlightened white leaders, many of them wealthy whaling merchants with Quaker roots, actively promoted the military enlistment that pulled 2,000 local citizen-soldiers into the Union ranks.Less
This book examines the social, political, economic, and military history of New Bedford, Massachusetts, in the nineteenth century, with a focus on the Civil War homefront from 1861 to 1865 and on the city's black community, soldiers, and veterans. It contributes to the growing body of Civil War studies that analyzes the “war at home” by focusing on the bustling center of the world's whaling industry in the nineteenth century. Using a broad chronological framework of the 1840s through the 1890s, the book contextualizes the rise and fall of New Bedford's whaling enterprise and details the war's multifaceted impacts between 1861 and 1865. One of its major goals is to explore the war's social history by examining how the conflict touched the city's residents—both white and black. Known before the war for both its wealth and its antislavery fervor, New Bedford offered a congenial home for a sizeable black community that experienced a “different Civil War” than did native-born whites. Drawing upon military pension files, published accounts, and welfare records, the book pays particular attention to soldiers and families connected with the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the “brave black regiment” (made famous by the Academy Award-winning 1989 film Glory) that helped shape national debates over black military enlistment, equal pay, and notions of citizenship. New Bedford's enlightened white leaders, many of them wealthy whaling merchants with Quaker roots, actively promoted the military enlistment that pulled 2,000 local citizen-soldiers into the Union ranks.
Sanders Marble (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780823239771
- eISBN:
- 9780823239818
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823239771.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Military History
This book looks at the boundary of military history and disability history. Rather than looking at veterans, it looks at case studies of how armies have defined standard and substandard, and have ...
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This book looks at the boundary of military history and disability history. Rather than looking at veterans, it looks at case studies of how armies have defined standard and substandard, and have utilized ‘substandard’ personnel. Standard has both physical and cultural components; both change depending on the period and the nation, and change during wars as manpower becomes scarce. The book takes case studies ranging from the American Civil War through the Vietnam War from the US, Britain, France, Germany, and the USSR.Less
This book looks at the boundary of military history and disability history. Rather than looking at veterans, it looks at case studies of how armies have defined standard and substandard, and have utilized ‘substandard’ personnel. Standard has both physical and cultural components; both change depending on the period and the nation, and change during wars as manpower becomes scarce. The book takes case studies ranging from the American Civil War through the Vietnam War from the US, Britain, France, Germany, and the USSR.
Adoration
After Fukushima
After the Monkey Trial
Against Democracy
Answering Auschwitz
Bestial Traces
Better Off Dead
Beyond the Mushroom Cloud
The Body of Property
