Book Description
Focuses on the intense struggle over human and material resources between armies and civilians in the Civil War South.
Author : Joan E. Cashin
Publisher :
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 13,90 MB
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108420168
Focuses on the intense struggle over human and material resources between armies and civilians in the Civil War South.
Author : Joan E. Cashin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 25,3 MB
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1108351980
In this path-breaking work on the American Civil War, Joan E. Cashin explores the struggle between armies and civilians over the human and material resources necessary to wage war. This war 'stuff' included the skills of white Southern civilians, as well as such material resources as food, timber, and housing. At first, civilians were willing to help Confederate or Union forces, but the war took such a toll that all civilians, regardless of politics, began focusing on their own survival. Both armies took whatever they needed from human beings and the material world, which eventually destroyed the region's ability to wage war. In this fierce contest between civilians and armies, the civilian population lost. Cashin draws on a wide range of documents, as well as the perspectives of environmental history and material culture studies. This book provides an entirely new perspective on the war era.
Author : Brandon M. Schechter
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 42,78 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501739816
The Stuff of Soldiers uses everyday objects to tell the story of the Great Patriotic War as never before. Brandon M. Schechter attends to a diverse array of things—from spoons to tanks—to show how a wide array of citizens became soldiers, and how the provisioning of material goods separated soldiers from civilians. Through a fascinating examination of leaflets, proclamations, newspapers, manuals, letters to and from the front, diaries, and interviews, The Stuff of Soldiers reveals how the use of everyday items made it possible to wage war. The dazzling range of documents showcases ethnic diversity, women's particular problems at the front, and vivid descriptions of violence and looting. Each chapter features a series of related objects: weapons, uniforms, rations, and even the knick-knacks in a soldier's rucksack. These objects narrate the experience of people at war, illuminating the changes taking place in Soviet society over the course of the most destructive conflict in recorded history. Schechter argues that spoons, shovels, belts, and watches held as much meaning to the waging of war as guns and tanks. In The Stuff of Soldiers, he describes the transformative potential of material things to create a modern culture, citizen, and soldier during World War II.
Author : Various
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,54 MB
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0763675547
Combines evocative photographs and illustrations in a treasury of stories by 11 international writers that were inspired by artifacts connected to World War I. Illustrated by the Kate Greenaway Medal-winning artist of A Monster Calls.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Expenditures in the War Department
Publisher :
Page : 1334 pages
File Size : 39,16 MB
Release : 1920
Category : World War, 1914-1918
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Author : Joan E. Cashin
Publisher :
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 30,30 MB
Release : 2018
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9781469643229
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1442 pages
File Size : 22,68 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Advertising
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Author : American Legion
Publisher :
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 1919
Category : World War, 1914-1918
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Publisher :
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 22,76 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
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Page : 444 pages
File Size : 10,84 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Leather industry and trade
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