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Book SynopsisThe strongly negative opinions of Confederate general Braxton Bragg's contemporaries have continued to colour assessments of the general's military career and character by generations of historians. Rather than take these assessments at face value, Earl J. Hess's biography offers a much more balanced account of Bragg.Trade ReviewAn enjoyable read that makes a thought-provoking argument. . . . [An] even-handed look at Bragg's military career [that] will be useful reading for anyone interested in Civil War history, particularly the western theater." - The Civil War Monitor"Fleshes out [the] real Braxton Bragg. . . . [A] magnificent new study. . . . Exhaustively researched and trenchantly reasoned." - Ted Savas, Civil War News"A significant addition to our understanding of the Civil War. . . . Any scholar of the war should consider it mandatory reading." - The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society"Deeply researched and fair-minded." - News & Observer"A thoughtful reexamination of a man who has become, unfortunately and unfairly, the South's 'chief whipping boy'. . . . [A] sharp-eyed profile of the general's dour personality and snakebit career [that] will bring much-needed perspective to future studies of the Confederacy." - Russell S. Bonds, The Wall Street Journal"Hess is a prolific author on many Civil War subjects with a well-earned reputation for shedding new light on long accepted theses. Bragg could not have asked for a more thoughtful, careful, and scrupulously honest evaluator. . . . Hess writes with an easy grace born of erudite scholarship and years in the classroom challenging fresh eyes to look upon old stories and interpret them in new ways." - Civil War Round Table of the District of Columbia"Hess is a first class historian. . . . Among the best in current Civil War writing." - Journal of America's Military Past"This important study successfully challenges the many stale caricatures of Bragg that remain deeply ingrained in the Civil War literature." - Civil War Books and Authors"Well-documented, Hess's examination of Bragg is balanced and fair and will interest all Civil War aficionados." - Library Journal"An excellent synthesis that delves into Bragg's decisions and relationships as a general combined with the usual superb writing we have grown accustomed to from Hess. . . . A first-rate analysis of Braxton Bragg and a superb piece of Civil War history." - Army History"Hess's extensive knowledge of the Civil War and military history and his excellent and exhaustive ability to research his chosen topic shine through." - Tennessee Libraries

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Book SynopsisMore than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 African Americans fought willingly as soldiers in the Confederate army. But as Kevin Levin argues, such claims would have shocked anyone who served in the army during the war itself.

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Book SynopsisMosaic Fictions reveals the tensions between national and global affiliations in Spanish Civil War literature, highlighting writers such as Leonard Cohen, Dorothy Livesay, and Mordecai Richler.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction A Better Earth: Looking at Spain, Envisioning Canada 1. Love: Impossible War Romances 2. Sympathy: Cosmopolitan Combat and Postcolonial Spain 3. Community: Documenting Female Friendship in Spain 4. Inclusion: Elegizing Lorca Conclusion Remembrance: Envisioning Spain and Canada Now Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn terms of its popularity, as well as its production, chocolate was among the first foods to travel from the New World to Spain. Chocolate: How a New World Commodity Conquered Spanish Literature considers chocolate as an object of collective memory used to bridge the transatlantic gap through Spanish literary works of the early modern period, tracing the mention of chocolate from indigenous legends and early chronicles of the conquistadors to the theatre and literature of Spain. The book considers a variety of perspectives and material cultures, such as the pre-Colombian conception of chocolate, the commercial enterprise surrounding chocolate, and the darker side of chocolate’s connections to witchcraft and sex. Encapsulating both historical and literary interests, Chocolate will appeal to anyone interested in the global history of chocolate.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface 1. Introduction 2. Pre-Columbian Conceptions of Chocolate 3. Encountering Chocolate: What Is It Good For? 4. Chocolate Covered Commerce: How Chocolate Came into Popularity in the Old World 5. Chocolate in the Church: Ecclesiastical Debates on Chocolate and Fasting 6. Chocolate: A Prescription for Health? 7. Sinfully Delicious: The Darker Side of Chocolate 8. Conclusion 9. Epilogue: Chocolate Then and Chocolate Now Appendix Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisUsing multiple languages, numerous archives, press reports, oral histories, letters, and memoirs, Stalin’s Niños investigates the well-resourced boarding schools designed specifically for nearly 3,000 child refugees from the Spanish Civil War.Trade Review"Besides telling an important story, the book raises a key theoretical question concerning the results of the double assimilation: How viable were its hybrid products and did they remain truly hybrid in the long-term perspective rather than eventually choosing just one part of their complex social identity?" -- Zukhra Kasimova * Ab Imperio *"This is a well-researched and insightful book that should find a broad readership among scholars of the Spanish Civil War, refugee movements, and Soviet history." -- Glennys Young, University of Washington * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *"This book is based on rich primary sources, including oral histories, memoirs, official documents from the Spanish archives in Madrid and Barcelona, and Russian archival holdings in Moscow. This broad range of sources creates a balanced, multifaceted narrative that sheds light on the professional dilemmas that children’s mentors and educators faced, as well as the lived experiences of Spanish niños as told in their own words." -- Zukhra Kasimova * Ab Imperio *"Qualls offers a unique perspective on the young Spanish Civil War refugees’ lives, while also shedding light on the connection between Soviet foreign and domestic policy on a larger scale." -- Mirjam Galley * Kritika *“In Stalin’s Niños, Qualls provides an exemplary model of how excellent scholarship can tell memorable stories about extraordinary lives.” -- E. Thomas Ewing Virginia Tech * American Historical Review *“The achievement of this excellent, highly readable, and meticulously researched book should not be understated.” -- Daniel Kowalsky, Queen’s University, Belfast * Journal of Family History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations, Maps, and Tables Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. “Like Reaching Paradise after Being in Hell": The Turbulent Transition from Spain to the USSR 2. “We, the Spanish, Were like an Island”: Boarding Schools and Personnel as Loci and Models of Care and Soviet Values 3. Obuchenie: Classroom Instruction, Patriotism, and the Instilling of Soviet Values 4. Vospitanie: Kul’turnost’ and Kruzhki as Techniques of Normative Behaviour Training 5. Becoming Soviet in Traumatic Times: Life in War, 1939–1944 6. No Longer Children: Transitioning to Adulthood during War and Reconstruction Conclusion: Life after Stalin Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPushkin's Monument and Allusion is the first aesthetic analysis of Russia's most famous monument to its greatest poet, Alexander Pushkin.Trade Review"Pushkin’s Monument and Allusion is a valuable cultural history rooted in extensive research animated by creative thinking. A boon to the specialist, it promises to benefit students, and to engage the general reader." -- Olga Peters Hasty, Princeton University * Russian Review *"Dement’s monograph showcases a range of scholarly competencies, weaving traditional textual scholarship with approaches to theology, visual art, and urban design -- Melvin Thomas, Princeton University * Slavic and East European Journal *"Dement provides a fascinating guide to the history and cultural resonances of the Pushkin monument from its planning stages in the nineteenth century to the present day. It is well-worth reading." -- Gary Rosenshield, University of Wisconsin * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Dimensions of the Pushkin Monument 1. Pushkin’s Poem: Monument and Allusion (1811–1836) 2. Opekushin’s Pushkin Monument: Statue and Performance (1836–1880) 3. Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita: Crisis of the Future Poet (1880–1937) 4. Toporov’s Petersburg Text: Rejecting the Statue (1937–2003) 5. Tolstaia’s Slynx: Disfiguring the Monument (1986–2000) Conclusion: Allusion and the Naive Reader Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFor Miguel de Cervantes, to narrate a Mediterranean experience is to necessarily speak of an emotional experience. Affective Geographies takes as its point of departure the premise that literature is as influential in constructing the Mediterranean as are its geographic, climatic, or economic features. As the writer with the most vast and varied Mediterranean experience of his era, Cervantes is exceptionally well-suited for the critical task of recovering the literary Mediterranean. Engaging with the interdisciplinary fields of Mediterranean studies, affect theory, and the history of emotion, Paul Michael Johnson reads Cervantes’s texts alongside the affective structures that inscribe the Mediterranean as a space of conflict, commerce, expansion, and empire. In particular, he argues that Cervantes’s writing, with its uncommon focus on the Moorish, Islamic, and North African experience, can serve to realign misconceptions about the Mediterranean we have inTrade Review"Johnson is adept at distinguishing the portrayal of the inwardness and interiority of Cervantine characters from counterparts in 19th-century European realism. A highlight of the volume—one of many—is discussion of the encounter, in part 2 of Don Quixote, of Sancho Panza and the Morisco Ricote as a source of commentary on humor. Analyzing feelings is a challenge. Johnson has done his homework and far more. His approach to the Mediterranean takes the reader all over the map of criticism, metacriticism, interdisciplinarity, and the Cervantine corpus." -- E. H. Friedman, Vanderbilt University * CHOICE *"This fascinating and original scholarly contribution to Early Modern literary studies – presented with an exquisite written expression – not only invites readers to reconsider many canonical works by Miguel de Cervantes, but also helps to lay the groundwork for a new direction of scholarly inquiry into a wide array of classical fiction." -- Philip Allen, Midwestern State University * Hispanófila *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Part One: Casting Off 1. Introduction 2. Connected (Hi)stories: The Cervantine, Literary, and Affective Mediterranean The Historical Mediterranean The Literary Mediterranean The Affective Mediterranean Contesting a Sea of Discourses Deviations from Reason in a Sea of Diversity Part Two: Quixotic Passages 3. Shadows of the Inquisition: Honour, Shame, and a Cervantine View of Mediterranean “Values” Anthropologies of Mediterranean Honour and Shame Visual Topographies of Shame Shame Punishments and Cervantes Blood Purity and the Art of Infamy in Don Quijote’s Encagement Conclusion 4. A Mediterranean (Tragi)comedy: Sancho, Ricote, and the Emotional Politics of Laughter Gelotological Genealogies The Emotional Effects of Laughter, and Laughter as Affect Sancho and Schadenfreude, or Courtly Comedics From Sadism to Satire Laughing with Sancho and Ricote Conclusion Part Three: Other Ports of Call 5. Suspended Admiration: Wonder, Surprise, and Emotional Exemplarity in La española inglesa Aesthetics of the Unexpected Early Modern Cultures of Suspension Tempering Fears, Tempering Sails 153 Ethical Solutions through Admiratio Conclusion 6. Aporias of Love: Articulating the Ineffable in Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda Beyond Sentimentalism Aporias Ineffability Materiality Conclusion Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisYou don't know his name, but Boris Akunin is one of the most popular and prolific Russian writers of the twenty-first century.Trade Review"One fascinating feature of The Akunin Project is its intention to experiment with the traditional form of an academic collected volume as well as epitomize postmodernist aesthetics both thematically and stylistically in this project." -- Olga Breininger-Umetayeva, Higher School of Economics * The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on Transliteration 1. The Akunin Project: Introduction Elena V. Baraban and Stephen M. Norris 2. Interview with Grigorii Chkhartishvili (Boris Akunin) Part One: Postmodern Detektiv: The Erast Fandorin Series 3. In Search of a Hero: Boris Akunin’s Death of Achilles Elena V. Baraban 4. Rewriting Homer: Boris Akunin’s Postmodern Approach Judith Kalb Part Two: Amateur Detectives: The Sister Pelagia Trilogy and Adventures of Nicholas Fandorin 5. Tempting the Reader into a Search for Meaning: Boris Akunin’s Pelagia Trilogy Claire Whitehead 6. "A Little Theory": Boris Akunin’s "Crime and Punishment" Zara M. Torlone Part Three: Buried Secrets and Historical Spies in Akunin’s Works 7. The Mysteries of Moscow: In Which Boris Akunin Impersonates a French Writer and Reveals a Buried Secret Elizabeth Richmond-Garza 8. Spying on the Past: Boris Akunin’s History of Espionage Stephen M. Norris Part Four: Rewriting the History of Russia 9. L’etat, c’est tout: Boris Akunin’s History of the Russian State and the National History Canon Ilya Gerasimov 10. An Instructional Manual for the Nation: Boris Akunin’s History of the Russian State Stephen M. Norris Part Five: New Pseudonyms and Projects: Anatolii Brusnikin and Akunin-Chkhartishvili 11. "Under the Wide-Branching Cranberry": Stiob and Allusion in Anatoly Brusnikin’s The Ninth Saviour Yekaterina Severts 12. The Family Album: Ordinary People in Extraordinary Circumstances Elena V. Baraban Part Six: Boris Akunin as a Literary and Commercial Project 13. Socialist Realism Inside-Out: Boris Akunin and Mass Literature for the Elite Bradley A. Gorski 14. Boris Akunin and Cross-Media Marketing Natalia Erlenkamp 15. Conclusion: A Dozen Questions for Boris Akunin Appendices: Excerpts from Boris Akunin's Untranslated Works 1. Grigorii Chkhartishvili, "If I Were a Newspaper Magnate: Notes of a Restless Cow" (1999), translated by Bradley A. Gorski 2. "A New Karamzin Has Appeared" and "General Introduction" to The History of the Russian State, translated by Stephen M. Norris 3. Excerpt from Boris Akunin, Spy Novel (2005), translated by Stephen M. Norris 4. Excerpt from Anatolii Brusnikin, The Ninth Savior, translated by Yekaterina Severts List of Works by Boris Akunin List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisMaking the Bible French examines the Bible historiale, the most prolific and influential pre-Reformation French-language Bible.Table of ContentsIllustrations Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Making the French Bible, or Making the Bible French 2. Telling it Right: Confronting Reader Resistance 3. Soothing Listeners’ Ears: Narrative Aesthetics and Poetic Faith 4. Les paroles dont je vous ay fait mention: The Bible historiale’s Two Books of Job 5. The Patient Reader Conclusion: Asking the Right Questions Appendix: Table of Selected Manuscripts Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisUsing multiple languages, numerous archives, press reports, oral histories, letters, and memoirs, Stalin’s Niños investigates the well-resourced boarding schools designed specifically for nearly 3,000 child refugees from the Spanish Civil War.Trade Review"Besides telling an important story, the book raises a key theoretical question concerning the results of the double assimilation: How viable were its hybrid products and did they remain truly hybrid in the long-term perspective rather than eventually choosing just one part of their complex social identity?" -- Zukhra Kasimova * Ab Imperio *"This is a well-researched and insightful book that should find a broad readership among scholars of the Spanish Civil War, refugee movements, and Soviet history." -- Glennys Young, University of Washington * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *"This book is based on rich primary sources, including oral histories, memoirs, official documents from the Spanish archives in Madrid and Barcelona, and Russian archival holdings in Moscow. This broad range of sources creates a balanced, multifaceted narrative that sheds light on the professional dilemmas that children’s mentors and educators faced, as well as the lived experiences of Spanish niños as told in their own words." -- Zukhra Kasimova * Ab Imperio *"Qualls offers a unique perspective on the young Spanish Civil War refugees’ lives, while also shedding light on the connection between Soviet foreign and domestic policy on a larger scale." -- Mirjam Galley * Kritika *“The achievement of this excellent, highly readable, and meticulously researched book should not be understated.” -- Daniel Kowalsky, Queen’s University, Belfast * Journal of Family History *“In Stalin’s Niños, Qualls provides an exemplary model of how excellent scholarship can tell memorable stories about extraordinary lives.” -- E. Thomas Ewing Virginia Tech * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations, Maps, and Tables Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. “Like Reaching Paradise after Being in Hell": The Turbulent Transition from Spain to the USSR 2. “We, the Spanish, Were like an Island”: Boarding Schools and Personnel as Loci and Models of Care and Soviet Values 3. Obuchenie: Classroom Instruction, Patriotism, and the Instilling of Soviet Values 4. Vospitanie: Kul’turnost’ and Kruzhki as Techniques of Normative Behaviour Training 5. Becoming Soviet in Traumatic Times: Life in War, 1939–1944 6. No Longer Children: Transitioning to Adulthood during War and Reconstruction Conclusion: Life after Stalin Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Akunin Project is the first book to study the fiction and popular history of Grigorii Chkhartishvili, one of the most successful writers in post-Soviet Russia. In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, Chkhartishvili published over sixty books under the pen names Anatolii Brusnikin, Anna Borisova, Akunin-Chkhartishvili, and, most commonly, Boris Akunin. His series featuring the tsarist secret policeman Erast Fandorin has sold over 15 million books in Russia alone, making Akunin one of the bestselling authors of the post-Soviet era. Combining intertextuality, allusions, pastiche, and other markers of postmodern playfulness, many of Akunin’s works have been translated into English and have also been adapted for film and television. Akunin’s public profile has been further enhanced by his active involvement in mass political protests against Vladimir Putin. Despite Akunin’s international reputation as a celebrated writer, there is vTrade Review"One fascinating feature of The Akunin Project is its intention to experiment with the traditional form of an academic collected volume as well as epitomize postmodernist aesthetics both thematically and stylistically in this project." -- Olga Breininger-Umetayeva, Higher School of Economics * The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on Transliteration 1. The Akunin Project: Introduction Elena V. Baraban and Stephen M. Norris 2. Interview with Grigorii Chkhartishvili (Boris Akunin) Part One: Postmodern Detektiv: The Erast Fandorin Series 3. In Search of a Hero: Boris Akunin’s Death of Achilles Elena V. Baraban 4. Rewriting Homer: Boris Akunin’s Postmodern Approach Judith Kalb Part Two: Amateur Detectives: The Sister Pelagia Trilogy and Adventures of Nicholas Fandorin 5. Tempting the Reader into a Search for Meaning: Boris Akunin’s Pelagia Trilogy Claire Whitehead 6. "A Little Theory": Boris Akunin’s "Crime and Punishment" Zara M. Torlone Part Three: Buried Secrets and Historical Spies in Akunin’s Works 7. The Mysteries of Moscow: In Which Boris Akunin Impersonates a French Writer and Reveals a Buried Secret Elizabeth Richmond-Garza 8. Spying on the Past: Boris Akunin’s History of Espionage Stephen M. Norris Part Four: Rewriting the History of Russia 9. L’etat, c’est tout: Boris Akunin’s History of the Russian State and the National History Canon Ilya Gerasimov 10. An Instructional Manual for the Nation: Boris Akunin’s History of the Russian State Stephen M. Norris Part Five: New Pseudonyms and Projects: Anatolii Brusnikin and Akunin-Chkhartishvili 11. "Under the Wide-Branching Cranberry": Stiob and Allusion in Anatoly Brusnikin’s The Ninth Saviour Yekaterina Severts 12. The Family Album: Ordinary People in Extraordinary Circumstances Elena V. Baraban Part Six: Boris Akunin as a Literary and Commercial Project 13. Socialist Realism Inside-Out: Boris Akunin and Mass Literature for the Elite Bradley A. Gorski 14. Boris Akunin and Cross-Media Marketing Natalia Erlenkamp 15. Conclusion: A Dozen Questions for Boris Akunin Appendices: Excerpts from Boris Akunin's Untranslated Works 1. Grigorii Chkhartishvili, "If I Were a Newspaper Magnate: Notes of a Restless Cow" (1999), translated by Bradley A. Gorski 2. "A New Karamzin Has Appeared" and "General Introduction" to The History of the Russian State, translated by Stephen M. Norris 3. Excerpt from Boris Akunin, Spy Novel (2005), translated by Stephen M. Norris 4. Excerpt from Anatolii Brusnikin, The Ninth Savior, translated by Yekaterina Severts List of Works by Boris Akunin List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn terms of its popularity, as well as its production, chocolate was among the first foods to travel from the New World to Spain. Chocolate: How a New World Commodity Conquered Spanish Literature considers chocolate as an object of collective memory used to bridge the transatlantic gap through Spanish literary works of the early modern period, tracing the mention of chocolate from indigenous legends and early chronicles of the conquistadors to the theatre and literature of Spain. The book considers a variety of perspectives and material cultures, such as the pre-Colombian conception of chocolate, the commercial enterprise surrounding chocolate, and the darker side of chocolate’s connections to witchcraft and sex. Encapsulating both historical and literary interests, Chocolate will appeal to anyone interested in the global history of chocolate.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface 1. Introduction 2. Pre-Columbian Conceptions of Chocolate 3. Encountering Chocolate: What Is It Good For? 4. Chocolate Covered Commerce: How Chocolate Came into Popularity in the Old World 5. Chocolate in the Church: Ecclesiastical Debates on Chocolate and Fasting 6. Chocolate: A Prescription for Health? 7. Sinfully Delicious: The Darker Side of Chocolate 8. Conclusion 9. Epilogue: Chocolate Then and Chocolate Now Appendix Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisRussian Modernism in the Memories of the Survivors tells the stories of participants in the Russian avant-garde movement who lived through and continued to work under Stalin's repressiveTable of ContentsDedication Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction Dmitry Sporov Dialogue I: Victor Ardov (1) “How Sergey Yesenin recited poems, about one version of his suicide, and why fame cannot be trimmed by administrative means” Dialogue II: Victor Ardov (2) “On working with Vsevolod Meyerhold, and on bohemian life in Moscow in 1920s–1930s” Dialogue III: Vladimir and Ariadna Sosinsky (1) “On the failed duel in defense of Marina Tsvetaeva, and on the life of Russian emigrants in Prague and Paris” Dialogue IV: Roman Jakobson “On my friendship with Vladimir Mayakovsky” Dialogue V: Vladimir and Ariadna Sosinsky (2) “On meetings with Pasternak and Babel, German captivity, the uprising on the Oleron island, and working at the UN” Afterword Caryl Emerson Notes on the Photo Collection Ekaterina Snegireva About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisThis is the first graphic novel adaptation of Lazarillo de Tormes, an anonymous sixteenth-century work that is credited with founding the literary genre of the picaresque novel. This genre includes not only works by Spanish authors like Miguel de Cervantes but also famous novels in English and American literature featuring the anti-hero. This translated and modern retelling of Lazarillo de Tormes offers a new approach to old questions about a book that has puzzled readers and critics alike for centuries. Who was its mysterious author? Why did the Inquisition forbid this seemingly harmless book? Who read the book and how was it understood? These and other questions are recreated in the graphic novel, offering a broader vision of the fortunes and adversities of a book that against all odds became a literary classic.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1553 A Brief Note on the English Translation Four Editions The “Case” in Question Chapter One Characters Implicated in Lazarillo’s Editorial History 1599 Chapter Two 2019 Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn January 1829, an angry mob in Tehran murdered Russian poet and diplomat Alexander Griboedov, author of the verse comedy Woe from Wit and architect of the Russian annexation of the north Caucasus from Persia after the Russo-Persian War. A century later, the Russian formalist writer Yury Tynianov wrote a historical novel about the event entitled The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar. In this wide-ranging study, Anna Aydinyan posits that The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar conceptualizes Orientalism fifty years before Edward Said coined the term. She argues that Tynianov parodied historical works on the Caucasus in his novel in order to critique the ways in which exoticizing the East enabled imperialism and colonization. Analysing literary and non-literary texts on Russia’s relationship with Iran, along with the economic and cultural development of Transcaucasia after the Russo-Persian War, Formalists against Imperialism studies Russian culture within the frameTable of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on Translations and Transliteration Introduction 1. Colonial Management of Transcaucasia and the Ideas of the European Enlightenment 2. The “Oriental Journeys” in The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar 3. A Novelistic Outline of Orientalism 4. “The Fountain of Bakhchisaray”: The Harem of the Russian Empire 5. Infant Asia and Stenka Razin: Persia in the Works of the Soviet Avant-Garde 6. The “Treacherous Eunuch” in Pursuit of Freedom: Search for Authenticity in the Works of Montesquieu and Tynianov 7. Facing the Future and Confronting the Former Self: An Iranian Delegation’s Visit to Petersburg in 1829 and Its Interpretation in 1929 8. Knowledge Is Power: The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar as a Parody of a Spy Novel Conclusion: Tynianov’s Anti-imperialist Legacy and the 2010 Television Adaptation of His Novel Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow have poets in recent centuries been able to inscribe recognizable and relatively stable sincere voices despite the wearing of poetic language and reader awareness of sincerity’s pitfalls? How are readers able to recognize sincerity at all given the mutability of sincere voices and the unavailability of inner worlds? What do disagreements about the sincerity of texts and authors tell us about competing conceptualizations of sincerity? And how has sincere expression in one particular, illustrative context Russian poetry both changed and remained constant? An Indwelling Voice grapples, uniquely, with such questions. In case studies ranging from the late neoclassical period to post-postmodernism, it explores how Russian poets have generated the pragmatic framings and poetic devices that allow them to inscribe sincere voices in their poetry. Engaging Anglo-American and European literature, as well as providing close readings of Russian poetry, An Indwelling Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations A Note on Transliteration Introduction: The Sincere Voice, or How Sincerity Is Written and Read in Russian, and Not Only Russian, Poetry Preliminaries Two Poles in the Conceptualization of Sincerity Voice Decoding Sincerity The Structure of This Study 1. The Problem of Sincerity and the Poetic Device in Derzhavin’s Odes 2. Romantic Sincerities I From Genre to the Sincere Voice (Alexander Pushkin) Romantic Charisma and the Material Trace (Dmitry Venevitinov) 3. Romantic Sincerities II: Late-Romantic Sincerities Disarming the Byronic Hero (Mikhail Lermontov) A Poetics of Abandon (Apollon Grigoryev) 4. A Fault Line in Modernism Blok vs. Mandelstam Parallels in Anglo-American Modernism Two Poems 5. Poetic Sincerity in the Totalitarian and Post-Totalitarian Context Anna Akhmatova’s Requiem at the Crossroads of Sincerity Expectations The Second Epilogue: Confession of Hubris? Konstantin Levin: An Ironic Mid-Century Sincerity 6. Case Studies in Turn-of-the-Millennium Sincerity Boris Ryzhy’s Renewal of Traditional Sincerity The “Prodigal” Sincerity of Timur Kibirov Conclusion Appendix: Another Vista on Pushkin’s “Monument” Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisA Woman's Empire sheds light on how women's voices, activities, and writings were part of Russia's late imperial expansion into Asia.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Women and Empire: Imperial Domesticity and Its Discontents 1. Reinforcing the State at the Imperial Periphery: The Governor General’s Wife 2. Turkestan through Russian Eyes: Elena Apreleva’s Central Asian Sketches Part Two: Theosophy, Hunting, and Constructing the Nation in the Shadow of the Great Game 3. Propagandist of Russian Imperialism: Madame Blavatsky in India 4. Hunting, Photography, and National Rivalry: In the Pamirs Part Three: Science in the Name of the Nation: Women Scientists, Archaeologists, and Ethnographers 5. In Pursuit of Imperial Knowledge: Ol’ga Fedchenko, Aleksandra Potanina, Praskovia Uvarova, and Anna Rossikova Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe ways in which women have historically authorized themselves to write on war has blurred conventionally gendered lines, intertwining the personal with the political. Women on War in Spain’s Long Nineteenth Century explores, through feminist lenses, the cultural representations of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spanish women’s texts on war. Reshaping the current knowledge and understanding of key female authors in Spain’s fin de siècle, this book examines works by notable writers including Rosario de Acuña, Blanca de los Rios, Concepción Arenal, and Carmen de Burgos as they engage with the War of Independence, the Third Carlist War, Spain’s colonial wars, and World War I. The selected works foreground how women’s representations of war can challenge masculine conceptualizations of public and domestic spheres. Christine Arkinstall analyses the works’ overarching themes and symbols, such as honour, blood,Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: From behind the Lines to Writing War’s Texts: Redrawing the Boundaries of War and Gender 1. Love of Nation and Women’s Citizenship in Rosario de Acuña’s Amor a la patria (1877) 2. Gender, Casticismo, and Imperial Nations in Spain’s fin de siècle: Blanca de los Ríos’s Sangre española (1899) 3. Charity, Patria, and Painting War’s Pain: Concepción Arenal’s Writings, 1869–79 4. The Monstrosity of War and Justpeace: Concepción Arenal’s Cuadros de la guerra and Ensayo sobre el Derecho de Gentes 5. Getting Intimate with Empire: Fin-de-Siècle Women Writing a Psychology of the Disaster 6. Disordering the Imperial Home: Blanca de los Ríos’s La niña de Sanabria (1907) 7. Purity of Blood in the National Family? Spain’s War in Morocco in Carmen de Burgos’s En la guerra (Episodios de Melilla) (1909) 8. Between Feminist Aspirations and Pacifist Ideals: Burgos’s Essays on World War I and Women in War 9. Denouncing War’s Broken Syntax: Burgos’s World War I Novellas Conclusion: Transforming Moral Maps, Then and Now Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"As the author successfully argues, women's hard work, financial acumen, social networks, and sometimes physical courage are essential to explaining how Sweden, with a small population and limited resources, emerged victorious in what is often seen as the first "modern" war."—M. E. Wiesner-Hanks, Choice"Courage and Grief cogently surveys women’s significant contributions to the Swedish war effort during the Thirty Years’ War. Specialists and nonspecialists alike will appreciate how Ailes weaves together a textured account of the impact warfare had across seventeenth-century Swedish society and the central role that women played. Crucially, by highlighting the “home front,” Courage and Grief charts a potential path forward for historians to reexamine the impact of early modern warfare on society that relies centrally on women’s experiences."—Lauren Swift, H-War"A welcome contribution to the field of early modern women's history. . . . Ailes has gone to great lengths to highlight not only women of the highest social strata but individuals from all parts of society. This is an important book for readers who are not familiar with the subject."—Svante Norrhem, Early Modern Women"[Ailes] draws together many different strands of recent Swedish research into these topics, making it available for readers who do not know Swedish. . . . Courage and Grief will interest a wide range of early modern historians."—Erik Thomson, Journal of Modern History"Ailes believes that her depiction of the Thirty Years' War calls for alternative and more comprehensive perspectives on war than those perspectives just focused on traditional battlefields. That call is easy to agree with."—Maria Sjöberg, American Historical Review"[Courage and Grief is] an interesting and valuable contribution to the scholarship on early modern Sweden."—Maria Agren, Michigan War Studies Review“The Swedish kingdom was the most innovative military power in Europe from the middle of the sixteenth until well into the seventeenth century. The contributions of women to making those innovations and the impacts of those innovations offer an interesting and little-researched story. Mary Elizabeth Ailes makes a convincing case for the importance of women in Sweden’s war efforts.”—Jason Lavery, professor of early modern European history at Oklahoma State University and author of The History of FinlandTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Women on Campaign Peasant Women and Conscription Officers' Wives on the Home Front Queen Christina and Female Military Leadership Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPoetic elegies for lost or fallen cities are seemingly as old as cities themselves. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, this genre finds its purest expression in the book of Lamentations, which mourns the destruction of Jerusalem; in Arabic, this genre is known as the ritha al-mudun. In The City Lament, Tamar M. Boyadjian traces the trajectory of the genre across the Mediterranean world during the period commonly referred to as the early Crusades (10951191), focusing on elegies and other expressions of loss that address the spiritual and strategic objective of those wars: Jerusalem. Through readings of city laments in English, French, Latin, Arabic, and Armenian literary traditions, Boyadjian challenges hegemonic and entrenched approaches to the study of medieval literature and the Crusades.The City Lament exposes significant literary intersections between Latin Christendom, the Islamic caliphates of the Middle East, and the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia, argTrade Review"The City Lament is an important and well-conceived study that will make a significant contribution to the field. Boyadjian widens our frame of reference by bringing in the enormously significant Kingdom of Armenia, enhancing our understanding of this crucial period of history." -- Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Professor of English and Medieval Studies, and Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto"Tamar M. Boyadjian’s book is an impressive, unique, and original work of scholarship in several ways that make significant, imaginative contributions to fields of and approaches to the study of medieval literary and religious culture. This refreshingly global approach to the literary history of the genre establishes the context for the study’s cross-cultural, multilingual, and multi-religious study of crusading era lament over Jerusalem." -- Adnan A. Husain, Associate Professor of History, Queen’s University, Kingston"Drawing on texts in Latin, Arabic, and Armenian, this innovative study takes the shared tradition of lamentations over the city of Jerusalem as a window onto the complex cultural politics of the eastern Mediterranean in the so-called age of crusades. Reading with a literary critic’s eye for nuances of style, convention, and intertextual allusion, Tamar Boyadjian shows the historical and historiographical stakes of the shifting representations of Jerusalem in the century from the First Crusaders’ conquest of 1099 to the founding of the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia at the close of the twelfth century and beyond. " -- Sharon Kinoshita, Professor of Literature and Co-Director of the Center for Mediterranean Studies, UC Santa CruzTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Note on Translation and Transliteration Introduction: A Wasteland Translated 1. Lamenting Jerusalem 2. The Lost City: Ibn al-Abīwardī, Ibn al-Athīr, and the Lament for Jerusalem 3. Papal Lamentations: The First Crusade and the Victorious Mourning for Jerusalem 4. Jerusalem's Prince Levon: Lamentation and the Rise of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia 5. Forgotten Lamentation: Richard I and the Heavenly Journey to Jerusalem Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhen Americans declared independence in 1776, they cited King George III "for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us." In Quarters, John Gilbert McCurdy explores the social and political history behind the charge, offering an authoritative account of the housing of British soldiers in America. Providing new interpretations and...Trade ReviewQuarters places the issue of housing troops at the center not only of the Revolution, but of American political and social culture as colonists struggled to define boundaries between public and private spheres. * Choice *The book is a masterful telling of personal, local stories about the challenges and impacts of quartering, while maintaining a fast-paced book... it is indispensable reading for those interested in any aspect of the American Revolution. * Journal of the American Revolution *McCurdy follows the debates over billeting to analyze colonial-imperial proceedings, civilian-military relations, and personal rights. He argues that as the debates changed their ideas about public versus private places and the rights of people within them, Americans also rethought the ties between metropole and periphery... Quarters is a valuable study of an increasing clash of cultures within and between imperial and colonial, marital and civil, and policies and institutions that served as a foundation for revolutionary political and military formations. * William and Mary Quarterly *Quarters reveals and fills a significant gap in the literature on the revolution, and corrects some widespread misunderstandings... Quarters succeeds in illuminating a long-neglected dimension of British-American relations during the run-up to independence. * The Journal of Military History *Several factors combine to make Quarters a most welcome and original contribution to our understanding of the American Revolution...Quarters will spark salutary further discussion on the subject of American independence. It will certainly appeal to an audience of scholars of the Revolution, as well as anyone interested in eighteenth-century military institutions, including advanced undergraduate and doctoral students. Most importantly, it may alter for the better how civil–military relations in the colonial period are taught in American History classrooms. * MICHIGAN War Studies Review *McCurdy injects the pre-Revolutionary decades with a new spatial civilian-military dynamic in a way that changes how we understand well-studied topics such as Pontiac's War, the Proclamation Line of 1763, the Coercive Acts of 1774—and the development of a distinct American identity. * Early American Literature *Quarters is equally a social and political history; it should be widely read by historians across fields. It recovers the lived experiences of individuals, families, and communities. Refreshingly, women figure prominently in this narrative—the military was not a solely male space, nor was the world of politics a single-gendered space... The otherwise-familiar origins of the American Revolution look different thanks to McCurdy's work. * The Journal of American History *In challenging historians to think beyond the acrimony that often dominates discussions about the relationship between British soldiers and colonists, McCurdy will cause historians to consider quarters seriously not just in the practical function they served the military but their broader significance within the British imperial perspective. As McCurdy compellingly argues, military geography was central to the events tha sparked revolutionary sentiment and unification among the old British North American colonists leading up to the outbreak of war in 1775. * JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC *As John Gilbert McCurdy notes, there has never been a book-length treatment of the subject. Happily this omission has now been redressed in McCurdy's excellent monograph. The neglect of this topic is part of a larger failure to put military history into conversation with social and political history in a sustained and insightful way... Clearly argued and gracefully written, Quarters is an important contribution to this neglected area of inquiry that illuminates much about the challenges of imperial governance and the sensitivities of the revolutionary generation. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *Good books are not just books with which you are in complete agreement. Above all, they are books that make you think afresh about your own views. On that critical test, McCurdy's Quarters is a very fine book indeed. * Journal of Early American History *

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Book SynopsisWhen Americans declared independence in 1776, they cited King George III for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us. In Quarters, John Gilbert McCurdy explores the social and political history behind the charge, offering an authoritative account of the housing of British soldiers in America. Providing new interpretations and analysis of the Quartering Act of 1765, McCurdy sheds light on a misunderstood aspect of the American Revolution. Quarters unearths the vivid debate in eighteenth-century America over the meaning of place. It asks why the previously uncontroversial act of accommodating soldiers in one''s house became an unconstitutional act. In so doing, Quarters reveals new dimensions of the origins of Americans'' right to privacy. It also traces the transformation of military geography in the lead up to independence, asking how barracks changed cities and how attempts to reorder the empire and the borderland led the colonists to imaTrade ReviewQuarters places the issue of housing troops at the center not only of the Revolution, but of American political and social culture as colonists struggled to define boundaries between public and private spheres. * Choice *The book is a masterful telling of personal, local stories about the challenges and impacts of quartering, while maintaining a fast-paced book... it is indispensable reading for those interested in any aspect of the American Revolution. * Journal of the American Revolution *McCurdy follows the debates over billeting to analyze colonial-imperial proceedings, civilian-military relations, and personal rights. He argues that as the debates changed their ideas about public versus private places and the rights of people within them, Americans also rethought the ties between metropole and periphery... Quarters is a valuable study of an increasing clash of cultures within and between imperial and colonial, marital and civil, and policies and institutions that served as a foundation for revolutionary political and military formations. * William and Mary Quarterly *Quarters reveals and fills a significant gap in the literature on the revolution, and corrects some widespread misunderstandings... Quarters succeeds in illuminating a long-neglected dimension of British-American relations during the run-up to independence. * The Journal of Military History *Several factors combine to make Quarters a most welcome and original contribution to our understanding of the American Revolution...Quarters will spark salutary further discussion on the subject of American independence. It will certainly appeal to an audience of scholars of the Revolution, as well as anyone interested in eighteenth-century military institutions, including advanced undergraduate and doctoral students. Most importantly, it may alter for the better how civil–military relations in the colonial period are taught in American History classrooms. * MICHIGAN War Studies Review *McCurdy injects the pre-Revolutionary decades with a new spatial civilian-military dynamic in a way that changes how we understand well-studied topics such as Pontiac's War, the Proclamation Line of 1763, the Coercive Acts of 1774—and the development of a distinct American identity. * Early American Literature *Quarters is equally a social and political history; it should be widely read by historians across fields. It recovers the lived experiences of individuals, families, and communities. Refreshingly, women figure prominently in this narrative—the military was not a solely male space, nor was the world of politics a single-gendered space... The otherwise-familiar origins of the American Revolution look different thanks to McCurdy's work. * The Journal of American History *In challenging historians to think beyond the acrimony that often dominates discussions about the relationship between British soldiers and colonists, McCurdy will cause historians to consider quarters seriously not just in the practical function they served the military but their broader significance within the British imperial perspective. As McCurdy compellingly argues, military geography was central to the events tha sparked revolutionary sentiment and unification among the old British North American colonists leading up to the outbreak of war in 1775. * JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC *As John Gilbert McCurdy notes, there has never been a book-length treatment of the subject. Happily this omission has now been redressed in McCurdy's excellent monograph. The neglect of this topic is part of a larger failure to put military history into conversation with social and political history in a sustained and insightful way... Clearly argued and gracefully written, Quarters is an important contribution to this neglected area of inquiry that illuminates much about the challenges of imperial governance and the sensitivities of the revolutionary generation. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *Good books are not just books with which you are in complete agreement. Above all, they are books that make you think afresh about your own views. On that critical test, McCurdy's Quarters is a very fine book indeed. * Journal of Early American History *

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Book SynopsisGeoffroy of Villehardouin, Marshal of Champagne by Theodore Evergates traces the remarkable life of Geoffroy of Villehardouin (c. 1148c. 1217) from his earliest years in Champagne through his last years in Greece after the crusade. The fourth son of a knight, Geoffroy became marshal of Champagne, principal negotiator in organizing the Fourth Crusade, chief of staff of the expedition to and conquest of Constantinople, garrison commander of Constantinople and, in his late fifties, field commander defending the Latin settlement in the Byzantine empire against invading Bulgarian armies and revolting Greek cities. Known for his diplomatic skills and rectitude, he served as the chief military advisor to Count Thibaut III of Champagne and later to Emperor Henry of Constantinople.Geoffroy is remarkable as well for dictating the earliest war memoir in medieval Europe, which is also the earliest prose narrative in Old French. Addressed to a home audience in

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Book Synopsis Many have questioned the wisdom of the international intervention in Afghanistan in light of the escalation of violence and instability in the country in the past few years. Particularly uncertain are Canadians, who have been inundated with media coverage of an increasingly dirty war in southern Afghanistan, one in which Canadians are at the frontline and suffering heavy casualties. However, the conflict is only one aspect of Afghanistan's complicated, and incomplete, political, economic, and security transition. In Afghanistan: Transition under Threat, leading Afghanistan scholars and practitioners paint a full picture of the situation in Afghanistan and the impact of international and particularly Canadian assistance. They review the achievements of the reconstruction process and outline future challenges, focusing on key issues like the narcotics trade, the Pakistan - Afghanistan bilateral relationship, the Taliban-led insurgency, and continuing endemic poverty. This collection provides new insight into the nature and state of Afghanistan's post-conflict transition and illustrates the consequences of failure. Co-published with the Centre for International Governance Innovation Trade Review``Though originating in the context of Canadian political debates, the volume's center of gravity is not Canada in Afghanistan, but Afghanistan itself, objectively considered, as a genuine national policy dilemma. For that reason, it is of immediate relevance to decision-making processes presently confronting the United States and those nations whose soldiers and national coffers will provide the means for proceeding in this key theater of 'The Long War.'... Development studies, area studies, South Asian history, international relations, national security studies, post-conflict peace studies, are the principal academic audiences for this text. Many others employed in government, international organizations, NGO's, and the relevant private sector, are also likely beneficiaries. It is important for academics outside of Canada to learn how Canadians, who GDP and armed forces are a small fraction of America's, view the magnitude of the challenges, sacrifices, and dilemmas facing Afghanistan c. 2006. Jargon-free in general, well-edited, with a very satisfactory index, the volume is suitable as a supplemental text for advanced undergraduates and above.'' -- Paul Kamolnick, East Tennessee State University -- Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, 200912``Straddling the fraught international crossroad of terrorism and drugs, Afghanistan has succeeded in puncturing the hubris of liberal interventionism. It poses a new question to policy-makers: How do you defeat an insurgency in a fragile state? In this comprehensive collection, Hayes and Sedra succeed in bringing together an impressive range of opinion and expertise that adds to our understanding of contemporary Afghanistan and its international significance. This excellent book examines the political, economic, and security considerations underpinning the current search for peace, stability, and nationhood. It provides a sober, penetrating, and, in places, controversial analysis of the missed opportunities, problems, and, indeed, successes of this encounter.'' -- Mark Duffield, Professor of Development Politics, Bristol University -- 200810``Hayes, Sedra, and their colleagues provide the most comprehensive and balanced assessment to date of the international effort in Afghanistan.'' -- Barnett R. Rubin, Director of Studies and Senior Fellow, Center on International Cooperation, New York University -- 200810Table of Contents Afghanistan: Transition under Threat, edited by Geoffrey Hayes and Mark Sedra Foreword Christopher Alexander Introduction Mark Sedra and Geoffrey Hayes Section I: The Political Transition Looking Back at the Bonn Process William Maley Afghanistan: The Challenge of State Building Ali A. Jalali Poppy, Politics, and State Building Jonathan Goodhand Section II: The Economic Transition Responding to Afghanistan's Development Challenge: An Assessment of Experience and Priorities for the Future William A. Byrd Laying Economic Foundations for a New Afghanistan Seema Patel Section III: The Security Transition The Neo-Taliban Insurgency: From Village Islam to International Jihad Antonio Giustozzi Security Sector Reform and State Building in Afghanistan Mark Sedra Insecurity along the Durand Line Husain Haqqani Section IV: The Canadian Case Peace Building and Development in the Fragile State of Afghanistan: A Practitioner's Perspective Nipa Banerjee Establishing Security in Afghanistan: Strategic and Operational Perspectives M.D. Capstick Canada in Afghanistan: Assessing the Numbers Geoffrey Hayes Contributors Index Contributors' Bios Nipa Banerjee worked for thirty-three years for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), serving both at the headquarters level and in the field. She represented CIDA in Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Afghanistan. Her most recent posting, in Kabul (2003-2006), was as CIDA's head of aid for Afghanistan. In July 2008, she joined the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, where she lectures on international development. Her research interests include development in post-conflict countries and aid coordination and aid effectiveness, with a focus on Afghanistan. William A. Byrd is currently serving in the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, DC, as adviser in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit of the South Asia Region. Until recently he was the bank's senior economic adviser in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he helped to develop the World Bank's strategy for Afghanistan's reconstruction effort. He led the team that produced the first World Bank economic report on Afghanistan in a quarter-century. He has been with the World Bank for more than twenty years, during which time he has worked on China, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. His publications include six books on China and numerous articles, including several on Afghanistan. He has been responsible for reports on Afghanistan's public finance management, economic co-operation in the wider Central Asia region, and Afghanistan's drug industry. Most recently he co-authored a joint report of the World Bank and the UK Department for International Development titled Afghanistan: Economic Incentives and Development Initiatives to Reduce Opium Production. Colonel Mike Capstick retired from the Canadian Armed Forces (Regular) in late 2006 after thirty-two years of service. His final appointment was as Commander of the first deployment of the CF Strategic Advisory Team Afghanistan from August 2005 until August 2006. This unique unit, a mixed military civilian team, provided strategic planning advice and capacity building to development-related agencies of the government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. He was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for his leadership of this team and is currently an associate at the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, University of Calgary. Antonio Giustozzi is a research fellow at the Crisis States Research Centre at the London School of Economics, where he runs a research project on contemporary Afghanistan. He is the author of War, Politics and Society in Afghanistan, 1978-1992 (2000) and Koran, Kalashnikov and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan (2007) as well as several papers and articles on Afghanistan. Jonathan Goodhand teaches in the development studies department of the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. His involvement with Afghanistan dates back to the late 1980s, when he was an aid worker based in Peshawar, Pakistan. Since then he has conducted research and published widely on issues related to civil wars, war economies, international aid, and post-conflict peacebuilding. His most recent publication is Aiding Peace? The Role of NGOs in Armed Conflict (2006). Husain Haqqani is Pakistan's ambassador to the United States. Prior to taking this post he was the Director of Boston University's Center for International Relations and co-chair of the Islam and Democracy Project at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC. He has served as an adviser to Pakistani prime ministers Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto and as Pakistan's ambassador to Sri Lanka. His most recent book is Pakistan between Mosque and Military (2005). Geoffrey Hayes is an associate professor in the department of history at the University of Waterloo and is the associate director of the Laurier Centre for Military, Strategic and Disarmament Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, both of which are based in Waterloo, Canada. His work on contemporary defence issues has appeared in such journals as War and Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal and Behind the Headlines. Most recently he co-edited, with Mike Bechthold and Andrew Iarocci, Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007). Ali A. Jalali was the interior minister of Afghanistan from January 2003 to September 2005. He is currently serving as both a distinguished professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies and a researcher at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, both of which are based at the National Defence University in Washington, DC. His areas of interest include reconstruction, stabilization, and peacekeeping operations in Afghanistan and regional issues affecting Afghanistan, Central Asia, and South Asia. He has published widely on Afghanistan. William Maley is a professor and the director of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at the Australian National University. He has served as a visiting professor at the Russian Diplomatic Academy, a visiting fellow at the Centre for the Study of Public Policy at the University of Strathclyde, and a visiting research fellow in the refugee-studies program at Oxford University. A regular visitor to Afghanistan, he is the author of numerous books on Afghanistan, including Rescuing Afghanistan (2006) and The Afghanistan Wars (2002). Seema Patel is an independent consultant whose focus is on market-led economic development in fragile environments. She is currently a consultant to the AfghanAmerican chamber of commerce and the Global Development Alliance at USAID. She recently left the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where she served as a business development advisor for the project. From 2006 to 2007 she led a comprehensive CSIS field-based study on reconstruction in Afghanistan. The final report for the project was titled Breaking Point: Measuring Progress in Afghanistan. Mark Sedra is a research assistant professor in the department of political science at the University of Waterloo and a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, both of which are based in Waterloo, Canada. He currently leads CIGI's research program on global and human security. He has regularly served as a consultant to governments, intergovernmental organizations, and NGOs on security issues in Afghanistan and has published widely on the country. His most recent publications are: The Search for Security in Post-Taliban Afghanistan (2007), co-authored with Cyrus Hodes, and Afghanistan, Arms, and Conflict Armed Groups, Disarmament and Security in a Post-War Society (2008), co-authored with Michael Vinay Bhatia.

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Book SynopsisThis visually rich volume presents Harry G. Lang's groundbreaking study of deaf people's experiences in the Civil War. Based on meticulous archival research, Fighting in the Shadows reveals the stories of both ordinary and extraordinary deaf soldiers and civilians who lived during this transformative period in American history. Lang documents the participation of deaf soldiers in the war, whose personal tests of fortitude and perseverance have not been previously explored. There were also many deaf people in noncombat roles whose stories have not yet been told clerks and cooks, nurses and spies, tradespeople supporting the armies, farmers supplying food to soldiers, and landowners who assisted (or resisted) troops during battles. Deaf writers, diarists, and artists documented the war. Even deaf children contributed actively to the war efforts. Lang pieces together hundreds of stories, accompanied by numerous historical images, to reveal a powerful new perspective on the Civil War. These soldiers and civilians were not "disabled" by their deafness. On the contrary, despite the marginalization and paternalism they experienced in society, they were able to apply their skills and knowledge to support the causes in which they ardently believed. Fighting in the Shadows is a story of how deaf civilians and soldiers put aside personal concerns about deafness, in spite of the discrimination they faced daily, in order to pursue a cause larger than themselves. Yet their stories have remained in the shadows, leaving most Americans, hearing and deaf, largely unaware of the deaf people who made significant contributions to the events that changed the course of our nation's history. This book provides new insights into Deaf history as well as into mainstream interpretations of the Civil War.

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Book SynopsisBrilliant and devout, William Porcher DuBose (1836-1918) considered himself a man of thought rather than of action. During the Civil War, he discovered that he was both, distinguishing himself as an able and courageous Confederate officer in the Holcombe Legion and later as a dedicated chaplain in Kershaw's Brigade. Published for the first time, these previously unknown letters of DuBose chronicle his Civil War actions with these two celebrated South Carolina units and make an important contribution to the literature and history of the war. They also advance our understanding of DuBose's burgeoning religious ideals as a Civil War combatant who would later become one of the foremost theologians of the Episcopal Church and a distinguished professor at the University of the South. A native of Winnsboro, South Carolina, DuBose was studying to enter the Episcopal priesthood when the war began. After struggling with the question of secular and spiritual obligations, he decided to join in the defense of the Confederacy and began a long and varied career as a soldier. After service in the lowcountry during the first year of the war, he was thrust into the thick of combat in Virginia, where he was wounded twice and taken as a prisoner of war. After being exchanged and returned to duty in 1862, DuBose was wounded again at the battle of Kinston in North Carolina, and a year later influential friends arranged for his appointment as chaplain in Kershaw's Brigade. He continued to share in the hazards of combat with the men to whom he ministered as they fought in the battles of Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and Cedar Creek in 1864. Adroitly edited by W. Eric Emerson and Karen Stokes, the more than 150 letters collected here prove DuBose to be a man of uncompromising duty to his faith, fellows, and the Confederate cause. He references his interactions with prominent figures of the day, including General Nathan ""Shanks"" Evans, John L. Girardeau, John Johnson, Colonel Peter F. Stevens, General Joseph B. Kershaw, Louisa Cheves McCord, and General John Bratton. Also included here are DuBose's wartime courtship letters to his fiancée and later wife, Anne Peronneau DuBose. Collectively these extraordinary documents illustrate the workings of a mind and heart devoted to his religion and dedicated to service in the Confederate ranks.

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Book SynopsisIn 1968 James T. Gillam was a poorly focused college student at Ohio University who was dismissed and then drafted into the Army. Unlike most African-Americans who entered the Army then, he became a Sergeant and an instructor at the Fort McClellan Alabama School of Infantry. In September 1968 he joined the First Battalion, 22nd Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam. Within a month he transformed from an uncertain sergeant—who tried to avoid combat—to an aggressive soldier, killing his first enemy and planning and executing successful ambushes in the jungle. Gillam was a regular point man and occasional tunnel rat who fought below ground, an arena that few people knew about until after the war ended. By January 1970 he had earned a Combat Infantry Badge and been promoted to Staff Sergeant. Then Washington’s politics and military strategy took his battalion to the border of Cambodia. Search-and-destroy missions became longer and deadlier. From January to May his unit hunted and killed the enemy in a series of intense firefights, some of them in close combat. In those months Gillam was shot twice and struck by shrapnel twice. He became a savage, strangling a soldier in hand-to-hand combat inside a lightless tunnel. As his mid-summer date to return home approached, Gillam became fiercely determined to come home alive. The ultimate test of that determination came during the Cambodian invasion. On his last night in Cambodia, the enemy got inside the wire of the firebase, and the killing became close range and brutal. Gillam left the Army in June 1970, and within two weeks of his last encounter with death, he was once again a college student and destined to become a university professor. The nightmares and guilt about killing are gone, and so is the callous on his soul. Life and Death in the Central Highlands is a gripping, personal account of one soldier’s war in the Vietnam War.

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Book SynopsisPresents research on how Texans experienced Civil war. This book takes you from the battlefront to the home front, ranging from inside the walls of a Confederate prison to inside the homes of women and children left to fend for themselves while their husbands and fathers were away on distant battlefields.

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Book SynopsisIn Beyond the Quagmire, thirteen scholars from across disciplines provide a series of provocative, important, and timely essays on the politics, combatants, and memory of the Vietnam War. The essays pose new questions, offer new answers, and establish important lines of debate regarding social, political, military, and memory studies. Part 1 contains four chapters by scholars who explore the politics of war in the Vietnam era. In Part 2, five contributors offer chapters on Vietnam combatants with analyses of race, gender, environment, and Chinese intervention. Part 3 provides four innovative and timely essays on Vietnam in history and memory.Trade ReviewThis will be a valuable and significant addition to the historiography of the war."" - James Willbanks, author of Abandoning Vietnam and The Tet Offensive

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Book SynopsisPhantom in the Sky is the story of a Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) in the back seat of the supersonic Phantom jet during the Vietnam War—a unique, tactical perspective of the ""guy in back,"" or GIB, absent from other published aviation accounts. During the time of Terry L. Thorsen's service from 1966 to 1970, the RIO played an integral part in enemy aircraft interception and ordnance delivery. In Navy and Marine F-4 Phantom jets, the RIO was a second pair of eyes for the pilot, in charge of communications and navigation, and great to have during emergencies. Thorsen endured the tough Platoon Leaders Course at Quantico and barely earned a commission. He underwent aviation and intercept training while suffering airsickness issues—and still earned his wings. Thorsen joined the oldest and most decorated squadron in the Marine Corps, the VMFA-232 Red Devils in southern California, as it prepared for deployment to Vietnam. In combat, Thorsen felt angst when he saw the sky darken around him from anti-aircraft artillery explosions high above the Ho Chi Minh Trail. On his first close air support mission in support of ground troops (the majority of his Marine aviation missions), he witnessed tracers whiz by his canopy. On one harrowing sortie, he and his pilot purposely became the target to save an Army unit battling an enemy just a hundred feet away. On secret missions with secret weapons, they dove at anti-aircraft artillery muzzle flashes and flew as a low as fifty feet off the deck during close air support sorties, ""scraping"" the napalm off their plane. For one mission a friend survived a crash landing, but a training instructor vanished without a trace.

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Book SynopsisMuch of the history written about the Vietnam War overlooks the U.S. Marine Corps Combined Action Platoons. These CAPs lived in the Vietnamese villages, with the difficult and dangerous mission of defending the villages from both the National Liberation Front guerrillas and the soldiers of the North Vietnamese Army. The CAPs also worked to improve living conditions by helping the people with projects, such as building schools, bridges, and irrigation systems for their fields. In War in the Villages, Ted Easterling examines how well the CAPs performed as a counterinsurgency method, how the Marines adjusted to life in the Vietnamese villages, and how they worked to accomplish their mission. The CAPs generally performed their counterinsurgency role well, but they were hampered by factors beyond their control. Most important was the conflict between the Army and the Marine Corps over an appropriate strategy for the Vietnam War, along with weakness of the government of the Republic of South Vietnam and the strategic and the tactical ability of the North Vietnamese Army.War in the Villages helps to explain how and why this potential was realized and squandered. Marines who served in the CAPs served honorably in difficult circumstances. Most of these Marines believed they were helping the people of South Vietnam, and they served superbly. The failure to end the war more favorably was no fault of theirs.

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Book SynopsisAsia Booth Clarke's memoir is an indispensable resource for perceiving the complexities of her ill-fated brother. Indeed, as has been said, she ""turns on the light in the Booth family living room."" Certainly no outsider could give such insights into the turbulent Booth's childhood or share such unique personal knowledge of the gifted actor. Asia portrays him as an enigmatic figure, at once gentle and romantic while passionate and fanatical. She writes with a sister's affection and even with indulgence, but she mingles these with horror as she confronts the calamitous aftermath the assassination of Lincoln brought to Booth and to his family.

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Book SynopsisIn my year in Vietnam, I walked the booby-trapped rice paddies of the Delta, searching for the elusive Viet Cong, and later macheted my way through the triple-canopy jungle, fighting the North Vietnamese Regulars...I sweated, thirsted, hunted, killed. Somewhere in all my experiences, I overlapped the situations of nearly every infantryman and many others who served. Michael Lee Lanning's journal of his first tour of duty in Vietnam provides an unvarnished daily account of life in the field - the blood, fear, camaraderie, and tedium of combat and maneuver. Fleshed out with narrative and detail years later, the pages of this memorable book, first published in 1987, show an eager young recruit growing before the reader's eyes into a proud but bloodied combat veteran. Subsequent volumes in his ""Vietnam Trilogy"" will detail Lanning's tour as a company commander and his postwar investigation into the mind of the enemy. Through his eyes, readers see the reality of a war that did not always receive glory but was, in his words, ""the only war we had.

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Book Synopsis'I was not willing, but finally agreed...' So wrote Texas pioneer cattle drover William Berry Duncan in his March 1862 diary entry, the day he joined the Confederate Army. Despite his misgivings, Duncan left his prosperous business to lead neighbors and fellow volunteers as commanding officer of cavalry Company F of Spaight's Eleventh Battalion which later became the 21st Texas Infantry in America's Civil War. Philip Caudill's rich account - drawn from Duncan's previously untapped diaries and letters, written by candlelight on the Gulf Coast cattle trail to New Orleans, in Confederate Army camps, and on his southeast Texas farm after the war - reveals the personable Duncan as a man of steadfast integrity and extraordinary leadership. After the war, he returned to his home in Liberty County and battled for survival on the chaotic Reconstruction-era Texas frontier. Supplemented by archival records and complementary accounts, Moss Bluff Rebel paints a picture of everyday life for the Anglo-Texans who settled the Mexican land grants in the early nineteenth century and subsequently became citizens of the proudly independent Texas Republic. "Moss Bluff Rebel" will appeal to history lovers of all ages who are attracted to the drama of the Civil War period and interested in the stories of the men and women who shaped the Texas frontier.

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Book SynopsisA maverick, unionist district in the heart of the Old South? A notorious county that seceded from the Confederacy? This is how Jones County, Mississippi, is known in myth and legend.Since 1864, the legend has persisted. Differing versions give the name of this new nation as Republic of Jones, Jones County Confederacy, and Free State of Jones. Over the years this story has captured the imaginations of journalists, historians, essayists, novelists, short story writers, and Hollywood filmmakers, although serious scholars long ago questioned the accuracy of local history accounts about a secessionist county led by Newt Knight and a band of renegades.Legend of the Free State of Jones was the first authoritative explanation of just what did happen in Jones County in 1864 to give rise to the legend. This book surveys the facts, the records, and the history of the ""Free State of Jones"" and well may provide the whole story.

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Book SynopsisFor sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America’s greatest struggle. The Kent State University Press is pleased to present this third volume in its multivolume series, reintroducing the most influential of more than 500 articles published in the journal. From military command, strategy, and tactics to political leadership, race, abolitionism, the draft, and women’s issues, and from the war’s causes to its aftermath and Reconstruction, Civil War History has published pioneering and provocative analyses of the determining aspects of the Middle Period.In this third volume of the Civil War History Readers, John T. Hubbell has selected ground-breaking essays by Douglas L. Wilson, Mark Neely Jr., Herman Hattaway and Archer Jones, Ludwell Johnson, Allen Guelzo, and other scholars who examine Lincoln’s assertive idealism, leadership, views on slavery, abolitionism, emancipation, and Lincoln as a war president. Hubbell’s introduction assesses the contribution of each article to our understanding of Lincoln and the Civil War era.

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Book SynopsisA scrupulous analysis of Rodes's conduct during the Battle of Gettysburg Over the years, many top historians have cited Major General Robert E. Rodes as the best division commander in Robert E. Lee's vaunted army. Despite those accolades, Rodes faltered badly at Gettysburg, which stands as the only major blemish on his otherwise sterling record. Although his subordinates were guilty of significant blunders, Rodes shared the blame for the disjointed attack that led to the destruction of Alfred Iverson's brigade on the first day of the battle. His lack of initiative on the following day was regarded by some in the army as much worse. Whether justified or not, they directly faulted him for not supporting Jubal Early's division in a night attack on Cemetery Hill that nearly succeeded in decisively turning the enemy's flank.The reasons behind Rodes's flawed performance at Gettysburg have long proven difficult to decipher with any certainty. Because his personal papers were destroyed, primary sources on his role in battle remain sparse. Other than the official reports on the battle, the record of what occurred there is mostly limited to the letters and diaries of his subordinates. In this new study, however, Robert J. Wynstra draws on sources heretofore unexamined, including rare soldiers' letters published in local newspapers and other firsthand accounts located in small historical societies, to shed light on the reasons behind Rodes's missteps.As a result of this new research and analysis, we are finally able to come to a more detailed understanding of Rodes's division's activities at Gettysburg, an enduring subject of study and interest.Trade ReviewAt the moment of Gettysburg's sesquicentennial, it was estimated that nearly half of the approximately 65,000 books published about the Civil War in some way focused on the war's bloodiest battle. Because such a vast literature already exists about the Gettysburg Campaign, one might easily surmise that it would be impossible for anyone to produce anything original about it. Robert J. Wynstra successfully challenges that assumption with his recent volume, one destined to become a staple for anyone seeking a deeper, more nuanced understanding of the campaign's opening weeks. There is little to criticize about Wynstra's exhaustively researched, skillfully written, and nuanced history. While this book is certainly a necessity for students of the Gettysburg Campaign, those who seek a deeper understanding of the interactions between Confederate soldiers and white civilians, Confederates and African Americans, or how soldiers justified bringing war to people's doorsteps will find Wynstra's volume inestimably valuable."- The Civil War Monitor

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book exclusively devoted to the Civil War writings of Walt Whitman and Herman Melville, arguably the most important poets of the war. The essays brought together in this volume add significantly to recent critical appreciation of the skill and sophistication of these poets; growing recognition of the complexity of their views of the war; and heightened appreciation for the anxieties they harbored about its aftermath. Both in the ways they come together and seem mutually influenced, and in the ways they disagree, Whitman and Melville grapple with the casualties, complications, and anxieties of the war while highlighting its irresolution. This collection makes clear that rather than simply and straightforwardly memorializing the events of the war, the poetry of Whitman and Melville weighs carefully all sorts of vexing questions and considerations, even as it engages a cultural politics that is never pat. Contributors: Kyle Barton, Peter Bellis, Adam Bradford, Jonathan A. Cook, Ian Faith, Ed Folsom, Timothy Marr, Cody Marrs, Christopher Ohge, Vanessa Steinroetter, Sarah L. Thwaites, Brian Yothers

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Book SynopsisA historical figure's attempts to secure freedom for America and her slaves winning a reputation for reckless bravery in a succession of major battles and sieges, John Laurens distinguished himself as one of the most zealous, self-sacrificing participants in the American Revolution. A native of South Carolina and son of Henry Laurens, president of the Continental Congress, John devoted his life to securing American independence. In this comprehensive biography, Gregory D. Massey recounts the young Laurens's wartime record --a riveting tale in its own right --and finds that even more remarkable than his military escapades were his revolutionary ideas concerning the rights of African Americans.Massey relates Laurens's desperation to fight for his country once revolution had begun. A law student in England, he joined the war effort in 1777, leaving behind his English wife and an unborn child he would never see. Massey tells of the young officer's devoted service as General George Washington's aide-de-camp, interaction with prominent military and political figures, and conspicuous military efforts at Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Newport, Charleston, Savannah, and Yorktown. Massey also recounts Laurens's survival of four battle wounds and six months as a prisoner of war, his controversial diplomatic mission to France, and his close friendship with Alexander Hamilton. Laurens's death in a minor battle in August 1782 was a tragic loss for the new state and nation. Unlike other prominent southerners, Laurens believed blacks shared a similar nature with whites, and he formulated a plan to free slaves in return for their service in the Continental Army. Massey explores the personal, social, and cultural factors that prompted Laurens to diverge so radically from his peers and to raise vital questions about the role African Americans would play in the new republic.

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Book SynopsisThe American Revolution was a vicious civil war fought between families and neighbors. Nowhere was this truer than in South Carolina. Yet, after the Revolution, South Carolina’s victorious Patriots offered vanquished Loyalists a prompt and generous legal and social reintegration. From Revolution to Reunion investigates the way in which South Carolinians, Patriot and Loyalist, managed to reconcile their bitter differences and reunite to heal South Carolina and create a stable foundation for the new United States to become a political and economic leader.Rebecca Brannon considers rituals and emotions, as well as historical memory, to produce a complex and nuanced interpretation of the reconciliation process in post-Revolutionary South Carolina, detailing how Loyalists and Patriots worked together to heal their society. She frames the process in a larger historical context by comparing South Carolina’s experience with that of other states.Brannon highlights how Loyalists apologized but also went out of their way to serve their neighbors and to make themselves useful, even vital, members of the new experiment in self-government and liberty ushered in by the Revolution. Loyalists built on existing social ties to establish themselves in the new Republic, and they did it successfully.By 1784 the state government reinstated almost all the Loyalists who had stayed, as the majority of Loyalists had reinscribed themselves into the postwar nation. Brannon argues that South Carolinians went on to manipulate the way they talked about Loyalism in public to guarantee that memories would not be allowed to disturb the peaceful reconciliation they had created. South Carolinians succeeded in creating a generous and lasting reconciliation between former enemies, but in the process they unfortunately downplayed the dangers of civil war—which may have made it easier for South Carolinians to choose another civil war.

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Book SynopsisIn 1781 South Carolina patriot militiamen played an integral role in helping the Continental army reclaim their state from its British conquerors. Martyr of the American Revolution is the only book-length treatment that examines the events that set an American militia colonel on a disastrous collision course with two British officers, his execution in Charleston, and the repercussions that extended from the battle lines of South Carolina to the Continental Congress and across the Atlantic to the halls of British Parliament.On August 4, 1781, in Charleston, South Carolina, the British army hanged Col. Isaac Hayne for treason. Rather than a strict chronological retelling of the events, which led to his execution during the British occupation of Charleston, what is offered instead is a consideration of factors, independently set in motion that culminated in the demise of a loving father and devout patriot.Hayne was the most prominent American executed by the British for treason. He and his two principal antagonists, Lt. Col. Nisbet Balfour and Lt. Col. Francis Lord Rawdon, were unwittingly set on a collision course that climaxed in an act that sparked perhaps the most notable controversy of the war. Martyr of the American Revolution sheds light on why two professional soldiers were driven to commit a seemingly wrongheaded and arbitrary deed that halted prisoner exchange and nearly brought disastrous consequences to captive British officers.The death of a patriot in the cause of liberty was not a unique occurrence, but the unusually well-documented events surrounding the execution of Hayne and the involvement of his friends and family makes his story compelling and poignant. Unlike young Capt. Nathan Hale, who suffered a similar fate in 1776, Hayne did not become a folk hero. What began as local incident, however, became an international affair that was debated in Parliament and the Continental Congress.

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Book SynopsisThe Battle of Eutaw Springs took place on September 8, 1781, and was among the last in the War of Independence. It was brutal in its combat and reprisals, with Continental and Whig militia fighting British regulars and Loyalist regiments. Although its outcome was seemingly inconclusive, the battle, fought near present-day Eutawville, South Carolina, contained all the elements that defined the war in the South. In Eutaw Springs: The Final Battle of the American Revolution’s Southern Campaign, Robert M. Dunkerly and Irene B. Boland tell the story of this lesser known and under-studied battle of the Revolutionary War’s Southern Campaign. Shrouded in myth and misconception, the battle has also been overshadowed by the surrender of Yorktown.Eutaw Springs represented lost opportunities for both armies. The American forces were desperate for a victory in 1781, and Gen. Nathanael Greene finally had the ground of his own choosing. British forces under Col. Alexander Stewart were equally determined to keep a solid grip on the territory they still held in the South Carolina lowcountry.In one of the bloodiest battles of the war, both armies sustained heavy casualties with each side losing nearly 20 percent of its soldiers. Neither side won the hard-fought battle, and controversies plagued both sides in the aftermath. Dunkerly and Boland analyze the engagement and its significance within the context of the war’s closing months, study the area’s geology and setting, and recount the action using primary sources, aided by recent archaeology.

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Book SynopsisIntended for a general readership, Decisions of the Atlanta Campaign introduces readers to critical decisions made by both Union and Confederate commanders who faced harrowing situations and attempted to achieve strategic and tactical victories. Like four similar books by Matt Spruill, Dave Powell, and Peterson's own Decisions at Chattanooga, this contribution to the Command Decisions in America's Civil War series contains maps, photographs, and a guided tour of the battlefields. It will be the first in the series to tackle an entire campaign

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Book SynopsisBorn to an affluent family in 1836, Hylan B. Lyon claimed ancestors among Irish rebels, patriots of the American Revolution, and slaveowners in his native Kentucky. Biographer Dan Lee chronicles Lyon’s military career, which began with service in the Third US Artillery after his graduation from West Point in 1856. Lyon first saw action in the Third Seminole War. Later stationed at Fort Yuma in California, he went on to fight in the Coeur d’Alene War. Witnessing the execution of Yakima chief Qualchan during this last conflict nearly made Lyon leave the army. Yet the young lieutenant persevered. After serving with troops building the Mullan Road between Washington and Montana, Lyon returned to Kentucky just as Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election. Though his home state never seceded from the Union, Lyon cast his lot with the Confederacy. He served with the Third Kentucky Infantry Regiment (CSA), led the Eighth Kentucky Infantry, and later commanded the Kentucky Brigade under Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. Lyon saw action in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi, spending several months as a prisoner of war and winning special commendation for his performances at the Battles of Coffeeville and Brice’s Crossroads. He ultimately earned the rank of brigadier general. After the Civil War, Lyon sought refuge with other ex-Confederates in Mexico, working as a railroad surveyor. He requested and received a presidential pardon and returned to Kentucky by mid-1866. Lyon remained there until his death in 1907, devoting himself to farming and prison reform, as well as serving in the state house of representatives. He was the mayor of Eddyville, Kentucky, when he died in 1907. Trade Review“Hylan Lyon blazed a path across the latter part of the Civil War under Nathan Bedford Forrest. Dan Lee has uncovered new material on this unjustly neglected general, and readers of Civil War history, especially the Western Theater, should celebrate.” — Brian Wills, director, Center for the Study of the Civil War Era, Kennesaw State University

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Book SynopsisThe Battle of Gettysburg has inspired scrutiny from virtually every angle, but until the first publication of Matt Spruill’s Decisions at Gettysburg in 2011 investigations of critical decisions made by Union and Confederate commanders were not heavily scrutinized. The success of Decisions at Gettysburg launched a series of books exploring critical decisions in various battles and campaigns during the Civil War. In this revised second edition, Spruill updates the nineteen critical decisions, adding a twentieth decision, and aligns the book with others in the Command Decisions in America’s Civil War series.Decisions at Gettysburg, second edition, further defines the critical decisions made by Confederate and Union commanders throughout the battle. Matt Spruill examines the decisions that prefigured the action and shaped the course of battle as it unfolded. Rather than a linear history of the battles, Spruill’s discussion of the critical decisions presents readers with a vivid blueprint of the battle’s development. Exploring the critical decisions in this way allows the reader to progress from a sense of what happened in these battles to why they happened as they did. Complete with maps and a guided tour, Decisions at Gettysburg is an indispensable primer, and readers looking for concise introduction to the battle can tour this sacred ground—or read about it at their leisure—with key insights into the battle and a deeper understanding of the Civil War itself.

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