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Author : Marvin Wilson Schlegel
Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Conscripted City written by Marvin Wilson Schlegel and published by Hampton Roads Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas C. Parramore
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813919881
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (198 download)
Download or read book Norfolk written by Thomas C. Parramore and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2000-01-29 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history of Norfolk from the time of the first contact between a Spanish sailor and a native American Chiskiack in 1561, to the city's late 20th-century concerns, including pollution of Chesapeake Bay, urban development, traffic in illegal guns, and racial tensions.
Author : Iver Bernstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198021712
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The New York City Draft Riots written by Iver Bernstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-10-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For five days in July 1863, at the height of the Civil War, New York City was under siege. Angry rioters burned draft offices, closed factories, destroyed railroad tracks and telegraph lines, and hunted policemen and soldiers. Before long, the rioters turned their murderous wrath against the black community. In the end, at least 105 people were killed, making the draft riots the most violent insurrection in American history. In this vividly written book, Iver Bernstein tells the compelling story of the New York City draft riots. He details how what began as a demonstration against the first federal draft soon expanded into a sweeping assault against the local institutions and personnel of Abraham Lincoln's Republican Party as well as a grotesque race riot. Bernstein identifies participants, dynamics, causes and consequences, and demonstrates that the "winners" and "losers" of the July 1863 crisis were anything but clear, even after five regiments rushed north from Gettysburg restored order. In a tour de force of historical detection, Bernstein shows that to evaluate the significance of the riots we must enter the minds and experiences of a cast of characters--Irish and German immigrant workers, Wall Street businessmen who frantically debated whether to declare martial law, nervous politicians in Washington and at City Hall. Along the way, he offers new perspectives on a wide range of topics: Civil War society and politics, patterns of race, ethnic and class relations, the rise of organized labor, styles of leadership, philanthropy and reform, strains of individualism, and the rise of machine politics in Boss Tweed's Tammany regime. An in-depth study of one of the most troubling and least understood crises in American history, The New York City Draft Riots is the first book to reveal the broader political and historical context--the complex of social, cultural and political relations--that made the bloody events of July 1863 possible.
Author : Jay White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 916 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (322 download)
Download or read book Conscripted City written by Jay White and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leslie M. Harris
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226824861
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book In the Shadow of Slavery written by Leslie M. Harris and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-11-29 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of a classic work revealing the little-known history of African Americans in New York City before Emancipation. The popular understanding of the history of slavery in America almost entirely ignores the institution’s extensive reach in the North. But the cities of the North were built by—and became the home of—tens of thousands of enslaved African Americans, many of whom would continue to live there as free people after Emancipation. In the Shadow of Slavery reveals the history of African Americans in the nation’s largest metropolis, New York City. Leslie M. Harris draws on travel accounts, autobiographies, newspapers, literature, and organizational records to extend prior studies of racial discrimination. She traces the undeniable impact of African Americans on class distinctions, politics, and community formation by offering vivid portraits of the lives and aspirations of countless black New Yorkers. This new edition includes an afterword by the author addressing subsequent research and the ongoing arguments over how slavery and its legacy should be taught, memorialized, and acknowledged by governments.
Author : John Garry Clifford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The First Peacetime Draft written by John Garry Clifford and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the Selective Service Act of 1940 as a focus to illuminate the evolution of American policy and attitudes toward the Second World War, The First Peacetime Draft unites exhaustive research with crisp narrative and trenchant analysis. It is a first-rate work - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., author of The Age of Roosevelt and The Imperial Presidency.
Author : Jerry Elmer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004546685
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Conscription, Conscientious Objection, and Draft Resistance in American History written by Jerry Elmer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conscription, Conscientious Objection, and Draft Resistance in American History is the definitive history of conscription in America. It is the first book ever to consider the entire temporal sweep of conscription from pre-Revolutionary War colonial militia drafts through the end of the Vietnam era. Each chapter contains an examination of that era’s draft law, the actual workings of the conscription machinery, and relevant court decisions that shaped the draft in practice. In addition, the book describes the popular opposition to conscription: organized and unorganized, violent and nonviolent, public and clandestine, legal and illegal. Using sources never before utilized by historians, including government documents obtained in Freedom of Information Act requests, the book demonstrates how anti-conscription sentiment has been far deeper than is popularly appreciated.
Author : Jane Margaret Strickland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Spanish Conscript and His Family written by Jane Margaret Strickland and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Germanotta
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762767553
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (627 download)
Download or read book Insiders' Guide® to Hampton Roads written by Anthony Germanotta and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first edition, Insiders' Guide to Hampton Roads is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to this storied Virginia metropolitan area. Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of Hampton Roadsand its surrounding environs.
Author : Richard F. Miller
Publisher : University Press of New England
ISBN 13 : 1611682665
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)
Download or read book States at War, Volume 2 written by Richard F. Miller and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many Civil War reference books exist, there is no single compendium that contains important details about the combatant states (and territories) that Civil War researchers can readily access for their work. People looking for information about the organizations, activities, economies, demographics, and prominent personalities of Civil War states and state governments must assemble data from a variety of sources, with many key sources remaining unavailable online. This volume provides a crucial reference book for Civil War scholars and historians, professional or amateur, seeking information about New York during the war. Its principal sources include the Official Records, state adjutant general reports, legislative journals, state and federal legislation, executive speeches and proclamations on the federal and state levels, and the general and special orders issued by the military authorities of both governments, North and South. Designed and organized for easy use, this book can be read in two ways: by individual state, with each chapter offering a stand-alone history of an individual state's war years; or across states, comparing reactions to the same event or solutions to the same problems.
Author : Jeffrey L. Littlejohn
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813932882
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Elusive Equality written by Jeffrey L. Littlejohn and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Elusive Equality, Jeffrey L. Littlejohn and Charles H. Ford place Norfolk, Virginia, at the center of the South's school desegregation debates, tracing the crucial role that Norfolk's African Americans played in efforts to equalize and integrate the city's schools. The authors relate how local activists participated in the historic teacher-pay-parity cases of the 1930s and 1940s, how they fought against the school closures and "Massive Resistance" of the 1950s, and how they challenged continuing patterns of discrimination by insisting on crosstown busing in the 1970s and 1980s. Despite the advances made by local activists, however, Littlejohn and Ford argue that the vaunted "urban advantage" supposedly now enjoyed by Norfolk's public schools is not easy to reconcile with the city's continuing gaps and disparities in relation to race and class. In analyzing the history of struggles over school integration in Norfolk, the authors scrutinize the stories told by participants, including premature declarations of victory that laud particular achievements while ignoring the larger context in which they take place. Their research confirms that Norfolk was a harbinger of national trends in educational policy and civil rights. Drawing on recently released archival materials, oral interviews, and the rich newspaper coverage in the Journal and Guide, Virginian-Pilot, and Ledger-Dispatch, Littlejohn and Ford present a comprehensive, multidimensional, and unsentimental analysis of the century-long effort to gain educational equality. A historical study with contemporary implications, their book offers a balanced view based on a thorough, sober look at where Norfolk's school district has been and where it is going.
Author : Jane Margaret STRICKLAND
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Spanish Conscript and His Family. A Tale of Napoleon's Campaign in Russia written by Jane Margaret STRICKLAND and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Adolphus Trollope
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 338530055X
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Beppo, the Conscript written by Thomas Adolphus Trollope and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Author : Fouad Sabry
Publisher : One Billion Knowledgeable
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)
Download or read book Conscription written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2024-06-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Conscription Conscription is the state-mandated enlistment of people in a national service, mainly a military service. Conscription dates back to antiquity and it continues in some countries to the present day under various names. The modern system of near-universal national conscription for young men dates to the French Revolution in the 1790s, where it became the basis of a very large and powerful military. Most European nations later copied the system in peacetime, so that men at a certain age would serve 1 to 8 years on active duty and then transfer to the reserve force. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Conscription Chapter 2: Soldier Chapter 3: Conscientious objector Chapter 4: Selective Service System Chapter 5: Conscription in Australia Chapter 6: Military service Chapter 7: Conscription in the United States Chapter 8: Conscription in Germany Chapter 9: Conscription in Greece Chapter 10: Reservist (II) Answering the public top questions about conscription. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Conscription.
Author : James Nevius
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493008404
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Footprints in New York written by James Nevius and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NYC tour guides and authors James and Michelle Nevius explore the lives of 20 iconic New Yorkers—from Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant to Alexander Hamilton, park architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux to JP Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, Jr.—and use them to guide the reader through four centuries of the city’s story. Beginning with the oldest standing building in the city, , a 1652 farmhouse in Brooklyn, and journeying all the way to the rebuilding of the World Trade Center, the book follows in the footsteps of these iconic New Yorkers. The authors tell the stories of everyone from slave traders and long-forgotten politicians to the movers and shakers of Gilded Age society and the Greenwich Village folk scene. One part history and one part personal narrative, Footprints in New York creates a different way of looking at the past, exploring new connections and forgotten chapters in the story of America’s greatest metropolis. Visit www.footprintsinny.com for more.
Author : Henry William Elson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of the United States of America written by Henry William Elson and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Grand Army of the Republic. Department of New York
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the ... Annual Encampment, Grand Army of the Republic, Department of New York written by Grand Army of the Republic. Department of New York and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
