A Field Of Honor

Author : Gregory S. Brown
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0231503652

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Gregory S. Brown's A Field of Honor: The Identities of Writers, Court Culture and Public Theater in the French Intellectual Field from Racine to the Revolution offers a multilevel study of the intellectual, social, and institutional contexts of dramatic authorship and the world of playwrights in 18th-century Paris. Brown deftly interweaves research in archival and printed materials, case studies of individual authorial strategies, the rich, often contentious historiography on the French Enlightenment and contemporary cultural theory and criticism. Drawing on a sophisticated array of recent studies, Brown positions his work against and between the grain of alternative approaches and interpretations. He combines scholarship on the history of the book with analyses of political culture and cultural identity, leaving the reader with a strong and revealing appreciation for the tensions and crosscurrents staged at the center of the 18th-century "republic of letters."

Author : Edwin C. Bearss
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781426206207

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Fields of Honor by Edwin C. Bearss Pdf

Few historians have ever captured the drama, excitement, and tragedy of the Civil War with the headlong elan of Edwin Bearss, who has won a huge, devoted following with his extraordinary battlefield tours and eloquent soliloquies about the heroes, scoundrels, and little-known moments of a conflict that still fascinates America. Antietam, Shiloh, Gettysburg: these hallowed battles and more than a dozen more come alive as never before, rich with human interest and colorful detail culled from a lifetime of study. Illustrated with detailed maps and archival images, this 448-page volume presents a unique narrative of the Civil War's most critical battles, translating Bearss' inimitable delivery into print. As he guides readers from the first shots at Fort Sumter to Gettysburg's bloody fields to the dignified surrender at Appomattox, his engagingly plainspoken but expert account demonstrates why he stands beside Shelby Foote, James McPherson, and Ken Burns in the front rank of modern chroniclers of the Civil War, as the Pulitzer Prize-winning McPherson himself points out in his admiring Introduction. A must for every one of America's countless Civil War buffs, this major work will stand as an important reference and enduring legacy of a great historian for generations to come.

Author : Frances Wilson Huard
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547359944

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My Home in the Field of Honor by Frances Wilson Huard Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "My Home in the Field of Honor" by Frances Wilson Huard. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Edwin C. Bearss,James M. McPherson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781426200939

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Fields of Honor by Edwin C. Bearss,James M. McPherson Pdf

Few historians have ever captured the drama, excitement, and tragedy of the Civil War with the headlong elan of Edwin Bearss, who has won a huge, devoted following with his extraordinary battlefield tours and eloquent soliloquies about the heroes, scoundrels, and little-known moments of a conflict that still fascinates America. Antietam, Shiloh, Gettysburg: these hallowed battles and more than a dozen more come alive as never before, rich with human interest and colorful detail culled from a lifetime of study. Illustrated with detailed maps and archival images, this 448-page volume presents a unique narrative of the Civil War's most critical battles, translating Bearss' inimitable delivery into print. As he guides readers from the first shots at Fort Sumter to Gettysburg's bloody fields to the dignified surrender at Appomattox, his engagingly plainspoken but expert account demonstrates why he stands beside Shelby Foote, James McPherson, and Ken Burns in the front rank of modern chroniclers of the Civil War, as the Pulitzer Prize-winning McPherson himself points out in his admiring Introduction. A must for every one of America's countless Civil War buffs, this major work will stand as an important reference and enduring legacy of a great historian for generations to come.

Author : D. L. Birchfield
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0806136081

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Field of Honor by D. L. Birchfield Pdf

Premise: "A secret underground civilization of Choctaws, deep beneath the Ouachita Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma, has evolved into a high-tech culture, supported by the labor of slaves kidnapped from the surface."

Author : Benjamin Cummings Truman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Dueling
ISBN : UCAL:$B273687

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The Field of Honor by Benjamin Cummings Truman Pdf

Author : Frances Wilson Huard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:671746512

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My Home in the Field of Honor by Frances Wilson Huard Pdf

Author : Max Aub
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781844674008

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Field of Honour by Max Aub Pdf

A contemporary of Lorca and Buñuel in Spain’s Second Republic, Max Aub escaped into a life of exile after General Franco seized Barcelona. His masterpiece, acknowledged in Spain as one of the best accounts of the Spanish Civil War, is the five-novel cycle known as The Magic Labyrinth—never before translated into English. A playwright as well as a novelist, he brings the period alive through vibrant dialogue and a story that navigates the factional intrigues that eventually erupted onto the streets in violence. The protagonist of the first novel is Rafael López Serrador, whose coming of age in Barcelona introduces a cast from all walks of city life—Catalan nationalists, anarchists, Falangists, government ministers and showgirls. Just as central a character is Barcelona itself, lovingly depicted. Rafael’s adventures bring him into contact with the forces that were to destroy the Republic and determine the bloody course of the Spanish Civil War. Masterfully translated by Gerald Martin, author of Gabriel García Márquez: A Life, Max Aub’s novel is set to introduce to an English-speaking audience a classic of Spanish and Latin American literature—an account of the Spanish Civil War to compare with Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Author : Joanne B. Freeman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374717612

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The Field of Blood by Joanne B. Freeman Pdf

The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War In The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and all-out slugfests. When debate broke down, congressmen drew pistols and waved Bowie knives. One representative even killed another in a duel. Many were beaten and bullied in an attempt to intimidate them into compliance, particularly on the issue of slavery. These fights didn’t happen in a vacuum. Freeman’s dramatic accounts of brawls and thrashings tell a larger story of how fisticuffs and journalism, and the powerful emotions they elicited, raised tensions between North and South and led toward war. In the process, she brings the antebellum Congress to life, revealing its rough realities—the feel, sense, and sound of it—as well as its nation-shaping import. Funny, tragic, and rivetingly told, The Field of Blood offers a front-row view of congressional mayhem and sheds new light on the careers of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and other luminaries, as well as introducing a host of lesser-known but no less fascinating men. The result is a fresh understanding of the workings of American democracy and the bonds of Union on the eve of their greatest peril.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1322 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Law
ISBN : MSU:31293011645383

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : Paul G. Zeller
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476676616

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The Vermont Brigade in the Seven Days by Paul G. Zeller Pdf

The Vermont Brigade, sometimes referred to as the "First Vermont Brigade" or the "Old Brigade," fought its first full-brigade engagement in the Seven Days' battles. The leaders, as well as the rank and file, were inexperienced in warfare, but through sheer grit and determination they made a name for themselves as one of the hardest-fighting units in the Army of the Potomac. Using soldiers' letters, diaries, and service and pension records, this book gives a soldier's-eye-view of the Virginia summer heat, days of marching with very little rest or nourishment, and the fear and exhilaration of combat. Also included are the stories of 29 men that were wounded or killed and how the tragedies affected their families.

Author : John R. Angolia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:312816493

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On the Field of Honor by John R. Angolia Pdf

Author : Jessica Goodman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192516688

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Goldoni in Paris by Jessica Goodman Pdf

The thirty years Carlo Goldoni spent in Paris hold an ambiguous place in his career. The preface to his autobiography explicitly draws attention to France as the site of his authorial glory, but elsewhere he dismisses his work for the Parisian Comédie-Italienne as a failure, and this view has come to dominate modern readings of his French experience. This study sets out to explore this apparent contradiction. By reading Goldoni's own contemporary and subsequent accounts through the lens of his context as a dramatic author in 1760s Paris, Jessica Goodman sheds new light on both his experience and critical reactions to that experience. A key part of this contextualisation is an examination of contemporary Comédie-Italienne archives, resulting in the most comprehensive existing account of this oft-neglected theatre and its authorial relations in the period. When material and artistic conditions at the Comédie-Italienne thwarted the self-fashioning strategies Goldoni had developed in Italy, he turned his attention to other areas of French life; notably the court and the Comédie-Française. Yet despite relative success in this regard, his career as an eclectic homme de lettres was lost in translation to posterity. In his French Mémoires, he constructed the claim of Parisian glory according to an out-dated understanding of what it meant to succeed in the French literary field, focusing predominantly on the power of Comédie-Française success. Ultimately, this construction was a failure: in modern France, Goldoni is remembered as a famous foreigner, not the consecrated French littérateur he believed he had become.

Author : Jonathan Rand
Publisher : Chamberlain Brothers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1596090391

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Fields of Honor by Jonathan Rand Pdf

Recounts the life and accomplishments of Pat Tillman, who left professional football to join the Army in response to the September 11, 2001, attacks and was killed in a combat situation in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004.

Author : Ric Murphy,Timothy Stephens
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781476636412

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Section 27 and Freedman's Village in Arlington National Cemetery by Ric Murphy,Timothy Stephens Pdf

From its origination, Arlington National Cemetery's history has been compellingly intertwined with that of African Americans. This book explains how the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the home of Robert E. Lee and a plantation of the enslaved, became a military camp for Federal troops, a freedmen's village and farm, and America's most important burial ground. During the Civil War, the property served as a pauper's cemetery for men too poor to be returned to their families, and some of the very first war dead to be buried there include over 1,500 men who served in the United States Colored Troops. More than 3,800 former slaves are interred in section 27, the property's original cemetery.