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Author : National War Work Council, Y.M.C.A. of the United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : WISC:89100091214
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1377741419
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Author : Jeffrey C. Copeland,Yan Xu
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498548212
The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) is best known for its athletic and youth programs, a heritage that draws on its origins in 1844 to provide wholesome recreation to urban youth away from the moral decay of industrialized urban living. Before long, that uplift mission found a place in the American Civil War, and soon the Y had spread all over the world by the early twentieth century, and in every major war thereafter as well. The YMCA at War: Collaboration and Conflict during the World Wars is the first collection of scholarship to examine the YMCA’s efforts during the World Wars of the twentieth century, which proved to be a bastion of support to soldiers and civilians around the world. The YMCA deployed hundreds of thousands of its much-vaunted secretaries to support suffering civilians and ease soldiers’ wartime hardships. Joining forces with governments, other civic organizations, and individuals, the Y could be either an indispensable auxiliary or an arms-length nuisance. In all cases, its support had a significant byproduct: for every person it befriended, the Y invariably made an enemy with an opposing party, its patrons, its sponsor, or at times, all three. The YMCA at War offers fresh, timely research in an international and comparative perspective from scholars around the world that evaluates this conflict and collaboration during the World Wars.
Author : Guoqi Xu
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674060555
During World War I, Britain and France imported workers from their colonies to labor behind the front lines. The single largest group of support labor came not from imperial colonies, however, but from China. Xu Guoqi tells the remarkable story of the 140,000 Chinese men recruited for the Allied war effort. These laborers, mostly illiterate peasants from north China, came voluntarily and worked in Europe longer than any other group. Xu explores China’s reasons for sending its citizens to help the British and French (and, later, the Americans), the backgrounds of the workers, their difficult transit to Europe—across the Pacific, through Canada, and over the Atlantic—and their experiences with the Allied armies. It was the first encounter with Westerners for most of these Chinese peasants, and Xu also considers the story from their perspective: how they understood this distant war, the racism and suspicion they faced, and their attempts to hold on to their culture so far from home. In recovering this fascinating lost story, Xu highlights the Chinese contribution to World War I and illuminates the essential role these unsung laborers played in modern China’s search for a new national identity on the global stage.
Author : Timothy C. Dowling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781851095704
This captivating collection of first-hand accounts brings to life the "War to End All Wars." Personal Perspectives: World War I offers a unique and unprecedented view of the Great War through the experiences of its participants—people of all ranks and races. Focusing on 12 major groups, essays by top international scholars put readers directly into the lives of victims of gas attacks, women factory workers, African American soldiers, pacifists, medical personnel, and other groups both on the battlefield and home front. Of interest to both students and nonexperts, the work tells the stories of soldiers who suffered in the trenches, U-boat and anti–U-boat personnel, German Americans in the United States, and women activists like Florence Jaffrey Harriman. Through the perspectives of commanders, captives, civilians, and social workers, readers will learn why British soldiers in the Netherlands were called "maiden robbers," how the YMCA set up huts to care for prisoners in POW camps, and how efforts to entertain U.S. troops led to the the largest theatrical enterprise in history.
Author : Sharon Skeel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190654566
While she is best remembered today as founder of the Philadelphia Ballet and the director and driving force behind the famous Littlefield School of Ballet, from which Balanchine drew the nucleus for his School of American Ballet, Catherine Littlefield (1905-51) and her oeuvre were in many ways emblematic of the full representation of dance throughout entertainments of the first half of the 20th century. From her early work as a teenager dancing for Florenz Ziegfeld to her later work in choreographing extravagant ice skating shows, a remarkable dance with 90 bicyclists for the 1940 World's Fair, and on television as resident choreographer for The Jimmy Durante Show, Littlefield was amongst the first choreographers to bring concert dance to broader venues, and her legacy lives on today in her enduring influence on generations of American ballet dancers. As the first biography of Littlefield, Catherine Littlefield: A Life in Dance traces her life in full from birth through childhood experiences dancing on the Academy of Music's grand stage, and from her foundation of the groundbreaking Philadelphia Ballet Company in 1935 to her later work in television and beyond. Littlefield counted among her many glamorous friends and colleagues writer Zelda Fitzgerald, conductor Leopold Stokowski, and composer Kurt Weill. This biography also provides an engrossing portrait of the remarkable Littlefield family, many of whom were instrumental to Catherine's success. With the unflagging support of her generous husband and indomitable mother, Littlefield gave shape to the course of American ballet in the 20th century long before Balanchine arrived in the United States.
Author : Nina Mjagkij
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813185057
From the time of its emergence in the United States in 1852, the Young Men's Christian Association excluded blacks from membership in white branches but encouraged them to form their own associations and to join the Christian brotherhood on "separate but equal" terms. Nina Mjagkij's book, the first comprehensive study of African Americans in the YMCA, is a compelling account of hope and success in the face of adversity. African American men, faced with emasculation through lynchings, disenfranchisement, race riots, and Jim Crow laws, hoped that separate YMCAs would provide the opportunity to exercise their manhood and joined in large numbers, particularly members of the educated elite. Although separate black YMCAs were the product of discrimination and segregation, to African Americans they symbolized the power of racial solidarity, representing a "light in the darkness" of racism. By the early twentieth century there existed a network of black-controlled associations that increasingly challenged the YMCA to end segregation. But not until World War II did the organization, in response to growing protest, pass a resolution urging white associations to end Jim Crowism. Using previously untapped sources, Nina Mjagkij traces the YMCA's changing racial policies and practices and examines the evolution of African American associations and their leadership from slavery to desegregation. Here is a vivid and moving portrayal of African Americans struggling to build black-controlled institutions in their search for cultural self-determination. Light in the Darkness uncovers an important aspect of the struggle for racial advancement and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the African American experience.
Author : National War Work Council, Y.M.C.A. of the United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : UOM:39015068132904
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1376 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : American literature
ISBN : HARVARD:32044049966757
Author : Kenneth Andrew Steuer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : MINN:31951P00539633E
Author : Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte (Germany)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Propaganda, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039420604
Author : Public Affairs Information Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Economics
ISBN : OSU:32435023569916
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Economics
ISBN : NYPL:33433069249435
Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
ISBN : NYPL:33433074968904
Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Libraries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105027922769