Author: Judith Giesberg
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807895603
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Introducing readers to women whose Civil War experiences have long been ignored, Judith Giesberg examines the lives of working-class women in the North, for whom the home front was a battlefield of its own. Black and white working-class women managed farms that had been left without a male head of household, worked in munitions factories, made uniforms, and located and cared for injured or dead soldiers. As they became more active in their new roles, they became visible as political actors, writing letters, signing petitions, moving (or refusing to move) from their homes, and confronting civilian and military officials. At the heart of the book are stories of women who fought the draft in New York and Pennsylvania, protested segregated streetcars in San Francisco and Philadelphia, and demanded a living wage in the needle trades and safer conditions at the Federal arsenals where they labored. Giesberg challenges readers to think about women and children who were caught up in the military conflict but nonetheless refused to become its collateral damage. She offers a dramatic reinterpretation of how America's Civil War reshaped the lived experience of race and gender and brought swift and lasting changes to working-class family life.
Army at Home
Author: Judith Giesberg
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807895603
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Introducing readers to women whose Civil War experiences have long been ignored, Judith Giesberg examines the lives of working-class women in the North, for whom the home front was a battlefield of its own. Black and white working-class women managed farms that had been left without a male head of household, worked in munitions factories, made uniforms, and located and cared for injured or dead soldiers. As they became more active in their new roles, they became visible as political actors, writing letters, signing petitions, moving (or refusing to move) from their homes, and confronting civilian and military officials. At the heart of the book are stories of women who fought the draft in New York and Pennsylvania, protested segregated streetcars in San Francisco and Philadelphia, and demanded a living wage in the needle trades and safer conditions at the Federal arsenals where they labored. Giesberg challenges readers to think about women and children who were caught up in the military conflict but nonetheless refused to become its collateral damage. She offers a dramatic reinterpretation of how America's Civil War reshaped the lived experience of race and gender and brought swift and lasting changes to working-class family life.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807895603
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Introducing readers to women whose Civil War experiences have long been ignored, Judith Giesberg examines the lives of working-class women in the North, for whom the home front was a battlefield of its own. Black and white working-class women managed farms that had been left without a male head of household, worked in munitions factories, made uniforms, and located and cared for injured or dead soldiers. As they became more active in their new roles, they became visible as political actors, writing letters, signing petitions, moving (or refusing to move) from their homes, and confronting civilian and military officials. At the heart of the book are stories of women who fought the draft in New York and Pennsylvania, protested segregated streetcars in San Francisco and Philadelphia, and demanded a living wage in the needle trades and safer conditions at the Federal arsenals where they labored. Giesberg challenges readers to think about women and children who were caught up in the military conflict but nonetheless refused to become its collateral damage. She offers a dramatic reinterpretation of how America's Civil War reshaped the lived experience of race and gender and brought swift and lasting changes to working-class family life.
Living Monuments
Author: R. B. Rosenburg
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807849552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
While battlefield parks and memorials erected in town squares and cemeteries have served to commemorate southern valor in the Civil War, Confederate soldiers' homes were actually 'living monuments' to the Lost Cause, housing the very men who made that cau
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807849552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
While battlefield parks and memorials erected in town squares and cemeteries have served to commemorate southern valor in the Civil War, Confederate soldiers' homes were actually 'living monuments' to the Lost Cause, housing the very men who made that cau
Homes for Soldiers
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Lands
Publisher:
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Category : Bounties, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Bounties, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
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Homes for Soldiers
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Category : Bounties, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Category : Bounties, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Homes for Soldiers. Hearings ... on H.R. 487
Author: United States. Congress. House. Public lands
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Languages : en
Pages : 832
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Languages : en
Pages : 832
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Serving America
Author: Rueff Randall M. Rueff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781716809460
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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ISBN: 9781716809460
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Homes for Soldiers
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Public Lands
Publisher:
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Category : Bounties, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 886
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Category : Bounties, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 886
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The War Come Home
Author: Deborah Cohen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520220080
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
"Based on a breathtaking range of research in British and German archives, The War Come Home is written in an engaging, immediately accessible style and filled with rich anecdotes that are excellently told. This impressive book offers a powerful set of insights into the lasting effects of the First World War and the different ways in which belligerent states came to terms with the war's consequences."—Robert Moeller, author of War Stories: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany "With verve, compassion, and above all else, clarity, The War Come Home makes the dismal story of the failed reconstructions of disabled veterans in interwar Britain and German into engaging and provocative reading. Cohen moves from astute analysis of the interventions of high level bureaucrats to sensitive interpretations of how disabled veterans wrote and talked about their lives and the treatment they received at the hands of public and private agencies. She beautifully interweaves histories from below and above, showing how the two shaped -- but also collided with -- one another in profoundly consequential ways for the history of the 20th century."—Seth Koven, coeditor (with Sonya Michel) of Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520220080
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
"Based on a breathtaking range of research in British and German archives, The War Come Home is written in an engaging, immediately accessible style and filled with rich anecdotes that are excellently told. This impressive book offers a powerful set of insights into the lasting effects of the First World War and the different ways in which belligerent states came to terms with the war's consequences."—Robert Moeller, author of War Stories: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany "With verve, compassion, and above all else, clarity, The War Come Home makes the dismal story of the failed reconstructions of disabled veterans in interwar Britain and German into engaging and provocative reading. Cohen moves from astute analysis of the interventions of high level bureaucrats to sensitive interpretations of how disabled veterans wrote and talked about their lives and the treatment they received at the hands of public and private agencies. She beautifully interweaves histories from below and above, showing how the two shaped -- but also collided with -- one another in profoundly consequential ways for the history of the 20th century."—Seth Koven, coeditor (with Sonya Michel) of Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States
Construction for Hospitilization at Soldiers; Homes, Including Statement on Transfer of Lands at Old Fort Macomb La, Hearings Before Subcommittee No.1 ..., on H.r. 8288, H.R. 12524 ..., Dec 12, 1930
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs
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Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Report of Inspection of State Soldiers and Sailors' Homes for Year Ending June 30 ...
Author: National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
Publisher:
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Category : Soldiers' homes
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Soldiers' homes
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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