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Debunking many of the myths that have surrounded the Confederate retreat to Appomattox, Marvel shows that Lee's last days with the Army of Northern Virginia were chaotic, marked by fierce skirmishes and an uncertain outcome.

Even after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox, the Civil War continued to be fought, and surrenders negotiated, on different fronts. The most notable of these occurred at Bennett Place, near Durham, North Carolina, when Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered the Army of Tennessee to Union General William T. Sherman. In this first full-length examination of the end of the war in North Carolina, Mark Bradley traces the campaign l...

By analyzing the policies of Presidents Truman and Eisenhower, Hahn examines the interplay between the U.S. rise to power in the Middle East and its involvement in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Hahn shows that while the U.S. promoted Arab-Israeli peace in principle, it privileged its Cold War interests over its quest for peace, thus missing opportunities to end the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Hill offers the first detailed history of the Deacons for Defense and Justice, a black self-defense organization particularly influential in Louisiana and Mississippi from 1964 to 1967. Frustrated with the policy of nonviolence espoused by Martin Luther King Jr., the Deacons sought a new form of armed resistance to constant threats of violence from whites.

Nietzsches Vermächtnis, das seine berühmteste Sammlung von Aphorismen auf den Punkt bringt, ist der Nihilismus als lebensbejahende Kraft. Er ist die Voraussetzung für die Entfaltung eines neuen und befreiten Lebens. Denn nur die Zerschlagung des alten Denkens in Kunst, Religion und Moral gibt dem 'freien Geist' die Möglichkeit, in ironischer Distanz zu sich und der Welt die überlieferten Illusionen zu überwinden ('Gott ist tot') und zu den eig...

Conflict--be it war between states, ethnic violence, civil war, or terrorist activity--endures, despite immense efforts to end it. How do states cope with conflict, minimize future threats, and reduce the risk of insecurity? Morgan outlines a spectrum of solutions states use to manage violent conflict, ranging from strategies that individual governments enact largely on their own, such as distribution of power, deterrence, or arms control, to ...

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An inspiring travelogue, this memoir follows a man who goes to the end of the world, beyond Patagonia, to Tierra del Fuego. In search of lost tribes, he pushes himself to the limits, sailing the waters of Coleridge's albatross and entering the watercolors' blue horizons to sit on Robinson Crusoe's imaginary shore.

Die erste vom DIW herausgegebene Auflage der Arbeit von Rolf Wagenführ erschien 1954. Sie basierte auf einem Manuskript mit Daten, die der Autor während der Kriegsjahre gesammelt hatte und bot der Öffentlichkeit die Möglichkeit, die deutsche Katastrophe 1945 aus den Tatsachen der Entwicklung des deutschen Wirtschaftspotentials zu deuten und zu erklären. Das große Interesse ist der im SPIEGEL vom 12. Oktober 1955 (Nr. 42, 9. Jahrgang) erschiene...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Zeitschriften und Kinder - ein Thema, das in der Forschung nur wenig Beachtung findet. Was die Zeitschrift leisten kann, zum Beispiel den Kindern ein Fenster zur Welt zu öffnen, ihnen Wissen und Anregungen vermitteln, darüber findet nur wenig Diskussion statt. Abgesehen von den Interessen des Zeitschriftenmarktes, der hauptsächlich das Konsumverhalten ermittelt, wurde die Zeitschriftenforschung bisher insgesamt und v...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Im Spracherwerb muss zwischen dem Erwerb der Genuszuweisung, also der Genusregularitäten und dem Erwerb des Genuskongruenz-Systems unterschieden werden. Gegenstand der vorliegenden Arbeit ist primär die Genuszuweisung, daher werde ich in den folgenden Kapiteln die Ansätze zum Erwerb des grammatischen Genus hauptsächlich im Hinblick auf den Erwerb der Genuszuweisung darstellen. Ansätze, die sich mit dem Erwerb der Gen...

With more than 600 entries written from viewpoints as various as those which have constituted the postwar conservative movement itself, this encyclopedia orients readers of all types to the people and ideas that have given shape to contemporary American conservatism.

Based on Proverbs 31, this devotional highlights the characteristics that God has put into every woman to be the best she can be. Women will spend time with God, reading the Bible, and praying as lifelines to the Father.

Since the mass proliferation of the Internet, music has been the one art form that has seen the most attention online. This volume culls together essays that examine the cultural aspects of music existing online. More than just the notion that «people download, » Cybersounds is the first collection that critically looks at this issue, ultimately presenting new ideas and directions for exploring this field.

James Carey is arguably the founder of the critical cultural study of communication and media in the United States. This volume brings together top communication and media scholars to revisit and engage key themes in Carey's groundbreaking work. This lively assortment of cutting-edge research provides a timely overview of Carey's impact on current scholarship in communication, cultural studies, and U.S. history. Also included is a wide-ranging...

Based on extensive original research, Shoot First and Ask Questions Later provides a comprehensive analysis of media coverage of the war in Iraq in 2003. The authors look closely at the main actors involved through a broad range of interviews with journalists (both embedded and non-embedded), news editors, news heads, and with key planners at the Pentagon and the UK Ministry of Defence. This book also investigates how the war was represented o...

In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation and its aftermath, Carlyle Van Thompson illumines the racialized sexual desire that reduces Black people to commodities for consumption. Eating the Black Body examines the often-sadistic forms of sexual violence during the period of slavery and its aftermath. By looking at one poem and three novels - Richard Wright's Between the World and Me, John Oliver Killens' Youngblood, Ga...

News in Public Memory brings together a team of international experts to investigate the media-transmitted history of the twentieth century as it exists in the memories and minds of people living in diverse cultures across the globe. This book compares media-related childhood memories across three generations in nine countries. Results reveal that events of the past century are not only historical «facts» but have become substantial elements o...

Traces the persecution of Huguenots in France and the eventual emigration of a small bloc of the French Calvinist population to colonial South Carolina. In a volume devoted to the first generation of Carolina Huguenots, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke describes in detail their gradual transformation from French refugees to South Carolina planters.

The sturm-und-drang quality of educational reforms in the United States and England has prompted educators to ask how curriculum changes will affect teaching and learning. Central government in England and state agencies in the United States increasingly control curriculum development by writing the standards, monitoring teaching, and assessing standards' impact on students' achievements. But how does increasing government regulation of educat...