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Author : Various
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5041432325
Total Pages : 375 pages
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Download or read book The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 written by Various and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christoph Irmscher
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547568924
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Louis Agassiz written by Christoph Irmscher and published by HMH. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book is not just about a man of science but also about a scientific culture in the making—warts and all.” —The New York Times Book Review Charismatic and controversial Swiss immigrant Louis Agassiz took America by storm in the early nineteenth century, becoming a defining force in American science. Yet today, many don’t know the complex story behind this revolutionary figure. At a young age, Agassiz—zoologist, glaciologist, and paleontologist—was invited to deliver a series of lectures in Boston, and he never left. An obsessive pioneer in field research, Agassiz enlisted the American public in a vast campaign to send him natural specimens, dead or alive, for his ingeniously conceived museum of comparative zoology. As an educator of enduring impact, he trained a generation of American scientists and science teachers, men and women alike—and entered into collaboration with his brilliant wife, Elizabeth, a science writer in her own right and first president of Radcliffe College. But there was a dark side to his reputation as well. Biographer Christoph Irmscher reveals unflinching evidence of Agassiz’s racist impulses and shows how avidly Americans at the time looked to men of science to mediate race policy. He also explores Agassiz’s stubborn resistance to evolution, his battles with a student—renowned naturalist Henry James Clark—and how he became a source of endless bemusement for Charles Darwin and esteemed botanist Asa Gray. “A wonderful . . . biography,” both inspiring and cautionary, it is for anyone interested in the history of American ideas (The Christian Science Monitor). “A model of what a talented and erudite literary scholar can do with a scientific subject.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
Author : Thomas Settles
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807149632
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book John Bankhead Magruder written by Thomas Settles and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the major figures of the Civil War era, Confederate general John Bankhead Magruder is perhaps the least understood. The third-ranking officer in Virginia's forces behind Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston, Magruder left no diary, no completed memoirs, no will, not even a family Bible. There are no genealogical records and very few surviving personal papers. Unsurprisingly, then, much existing literature about Magruder contains incorrect information. In John Bankhead Magruder, an exhaustive biography that reflects more than thirty years of painstaking archival research, Thomas M. Settles remedies the many factual inaccuracies surrounding this enigmatic man and his military career. Settles traces Magruder's family back to its seventeenth-century British American origins, describes his educational endeavors at the University of Virginia and West Point, and details his early military career and his leading role as an artillerist in the war with Mexico. Tall, handsome, and flamboyant, Magruder earned the nickname "Prince John" from his army friends and was known for his impeccable manners and social brilliance. When Virginia seceded in April of 1861, Prince John resigned his commission in the U.S. Army and offered his services to the Confederacy. Magruder won the opening battle of the Civil War at Big Bethel. Later, in spite of severe shortages of weapons and supplies and a lack of support from Jefferson Davis, Judah P. Benjamin, Samuel Cooper, and Joseph E. Johnston, Prince John, with just 13,600 men, held his position on the Peninsula for a month against George B. McClellan's 105,000-man Federal army. This successful stand, at a time when Richmond was exceedingly vulnerable, provided, according to Settles, John Magruder's greatest contribution to the Confederacy. Following the Seven Days' battles, however, his commanders harshly criticized Magruder for being too slow at Savage Station, then too rash at Malvern Hill and they transferred him to command the District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. In Texas, he skillfully recaptured the port of Galveston in early 1863 and held it for the Confederacy until the end of the war. After the war, he joined the Confederate exodus to Mexico but eventually returned to the United States, living in New York City and New Orleans before settling in Houston, where he died on February 18, 1871. John Bankhead Magruder offers fresh insight into many aspects of the general's life and legacy, including his alleged excesses, his family relationships, and the period between Magruder's death and his memorialization into the canon of Lost Cause mythology. With engaging prose and impressive research, Settles brings this vibrant Civil War figure to life.
Author : Theodore Winthrop
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812293142
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Cecil Dreeme written by Theodore Winthrop and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Heterosexuality, this novel forthrightly claims, is a poor substitute for passionate love between men—and heterosexuality's historical emergence in the nineteenth century is consequently, Cecil Dreeme laments, a grave misfortune."—Christopher Looby, from the Introduction Freshly returned to New York City from his studies abroad, unmoored by news of the apparent suicide of his accomplished childhood friend Clara Denman, and drawn in spite of himself toward the sinister man-about-town Densdeth, Robert Byng is unsettlingly adrift in the city of his birth. Things take an even stranger turn once he finds lodgings in the Gothic halls of Chrysalis College in lower Manhattan. There he meets the mysteriously reclusive Cecil Dreeme, brilliant artist and creature of the night. In Dreeme, Byng finds a friend unlike any he has known before. But is Cecil the man he claims to be, and can their friendship survive the dangers they will soon face together? Issued posthumously in 1861, Cecil Dreeme was the first published novel of Theodore Winthrop, who has the unfortunate distinction of being one of the first Union officers killed in the line of duty during the Civil War. Newly edited by Christopher Looby, it is a very queer book indeed.
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Total Pages : 752 pages
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Author : David Von Drehle
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0805096086
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Rise to Greatness written by David Von Drehle and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The electrifying story of Abraham Lincoln's rise to greatness during the most perilous year in our nation's history As 1862 dawned, the American republic was at death's door. The federal government appeared overwhelmed, the U.S. Treasury was broke, and the Union's top general was gravely ill. The Confederacy—with its booming economy, expert military leadership, and commanding position on the battlefield—had a clear view to victory. To a remarkable extent, the survival of the country depended on the judgment, cunning, and resilience of the unschooled frontier lawyer who had recently been elected president. Twelve months later, the Civil War had become a cataclysm but the tide had turned. The Union generals who would win the war had at last emerged, and the Confederate Army had suffered the key losses that would lead to its doom. The blueprint of modern America—an expanding colossus of industrial and financial might—had been indelibly inked. And the man who brought the nation through its darkest hour, Abraham Lincoln, had been forged into a singular leader. In Rise to Greatness, acclaimed author David Von Drehle has created both a deeply human portrait of America's greatest president and a rich, dramatic narrative about our most fateful year.
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Total Pages : 398 pages
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Author : Boston Public Library
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Total Pages : 324 pages
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Author : Patrick Bryant Miller
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
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Download or read book The Atlantic Index Supplement. A List of Articles, with Names of Authors Appended, Published in "The Atlantic Monthly," [1857]-1901. Including Also a List of the Authors Represented, with Their Contributions Arranged in Chronological Order written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Stevenson
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412830461
Total Pages : 532 pages
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Author : Brooklyn Public Library
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Total Pages : 372 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin of the Brooklyn Public Library written by Brooklyn Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brooklyn Public Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
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Author : Brooklyn Public Library
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Total Pages : 372 pages
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Download or read book Quarterly Bulletin written by Brooklyn Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Wilden Neeser
Publisher : New York : MacMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
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Download or read book Statistical and Chronological History of the United States Navy, 1775-1907 written by Robert Wilden Neeser and published by New York : MacMillan. This book was released on 1909 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Joe M. Richardson
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817355383
Total Pages : 375 pages
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Download or read book Christian Reconstruction written by Joe M. Richardson and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2009-01-20 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Reconstruction traces the history of the American Missionary Association, the most ambitious and successful of the many benevolent societies that worked with the former slaves during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
