The Civil War in a Bottle
Author : Kim Allen Scott
Publisher :
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 34,82 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Arkansas
ISBN :
Author : Kim Allen Scott
Publisher :
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 34,82 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Arkansas
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Author : Mike Russell
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 37,6 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Bottles
ISBN : 9781880365274
Author : Ellen C. Gerth
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,58 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Bottles
ISBN : 9781933034072
Author : Heather Cox Richardson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 31,95 MB
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0190900911
While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral. The system that had sustained the defeated South moved westward and there established a foothold. It was a natural fit. Settlers from the East had for decades been pushing into the West, where the seizure of Mexican lands at the end of the Mexican-American War and treatment of Native Americans cemented racial hierarchies. The South and West equally depended on extractive industries-cotton in the former and mining, cattle, and oil in the latter-giving rise a new birth of white male oligarchy, despite the guarantees provided by the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, and the economic opportunities afforded by expansion. To reveal why this happened, How the South Won the Civil War traces the story of the American paradox, the competing claims of equality and subordination woven into the nation's fabric and identity. At the nation's founding, it was the Eastern "yeoman farmer" who galvanized and symbolized the American Revolution. After the Civil War, that mantle was assumed by the Western cowboy, singlehandedly defending his land against barbarians and savages as well as from a rapacious government. New states entered the Union in the late nineteenth century and western and southern leaders found yet more common ground. As resources and people streamed into the West during the New Deal and World War II, the region's influence grew. "Movement Conservatives," led by westerners Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan, claimed to embody cowboy individualism and worked with Dixiecrats to embrace the ideology of the Confederacy. Richardson's searing book seizes upon the soul of the country and its ongoing struggle to provide equal opportunity to all. Debunking the myth that the Civil War released the nation from the grip of oligarchy, expunging the sins of the Founding, it reveals how and why the Old South not only survived in the West, but thrived.
Author : Gene Sharp
Publisher : Albert Einstein Institution
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 33,90 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1880813092
A serious introduction to the use of nonviolent action to topple dictatorships. Based on the author's study, over a period of forty years, on non-violent methods of demonstration, it was originally published in 1993 in Thailand for distribution among Burmese dissidents.
Author : WILLIAM PARKHURST. TUTTLE
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,25 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9781033555958
Author : Mark Will-Weber
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 34,41 MB
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1621575594
"I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals." - President Abraham Lincoln, when confronted about General Ulysses Grant's excessive drinking. Blood, gunfire, and whiskey: they are the three things that defined Civil War battlefields. In this fascinating, booze-drenched history of the war that almost tore America apart, historian Mark Will-Weber (author of Mint Juleps with Teddy Roosevelt) weaves together lighthearted stories of drunken generals and out-of-control soldiers with the gritty reality of battlefields where whiskey was the only medicine-and sometimes the only food. Muskets and Applejack paints a full, complex picture of the surprisingly large role alcohol played in the Civil War: how it helped heal physical and emotional wounds, form friendships, and cause strife. Interspersed between stories from the battlefield are authentic recipes of soldiers' favorite drinks-from both sides of the Mason-Dixon line.
Author : William Parkhurst Tuttle
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 27,29 MB
Release : 1916
Category :
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Author : Walker Percy
Publisher : Farrar Straus & Giroux
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 1975-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780374513382
In "Message" i"n the" "Bottle," Walker Percy offers insights on such varied yet interconnected subjects as symbolic reasoning, the origins of mankind, Helen Keller, Semioticism, and the incredible Delta Factor. Confronting difficult philosophical questions with a novelist's eye, Percy rewards us again and again with his keen insights into the way that language possesses all of us.
Author : William Parkhurst Tuttle
Publisher :
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 36,71 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Madison (N.J.)
ISBN :