Author: Michael J. Bennett
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807863246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Historians have given a great deal of attention to the lives and experiences of Civil War soldiers, but surprisingly little is known about navy sailors who participated in the conflict. Michael J. Bennett remedies the longstanding neglect of Civil War seamen in this comprehensive assessment of the experience of common Union sailors from 1861 to 1865. To resurrect the voices of the "Union Jacks," Bennett combed sailors' diaries, letters, and journals. He finds that the sailors differed from their counterparts in the army in many ways. They tended to be a rougher bunch of men than the regular soldiers, drinking and fighting excessively. Those who were not foreign-born, escaped slaves, or unemployed at the time they enlisted often hailed from the urban working class rather than from rural farms and towns. In addition, most sailors enlisted for pragmatic rather than ideological reasons. Bennett's examination provides a look into the everyday lives of sailors and illuminates where they came from, why they enlisted, and how their origins shaped their service. By showing how these Union sailors lived and fought on the sea, Bennett brings an important new perspective to our understanding of the Civil War.
Union Jacks
Author: Michael J. Bennett
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807863246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Historians have given a great deal of attention to the lives and experiences of Civil War soldiers, but surprisingly little is known about navy sailors who participated in the conflict. Michael J. Bennett remedies the longstanding neglect of Civil War seamen in this comprehensive assessment of the experience of common Union sailors from 1861 to 1865. To resurrect the voices of the "Union Jacks," Bennett combed sailors' diaries, letters, and journals. He finds that the sailors differed from their counterparts in the army in many ways. They tended to be a rougher bunch of men than the regular soldiers, drinking and fighting excessively. Those who were not foreign-born, escaped slaves, or unemployed at the time they enlisted often hailed from the urban working class rather than from rural farms and towns. In addition, most sailors enlisted for pragmatic rather than ideological reasons. Bennett's examination provides a look into the everyday lives of sailors and illuminates where they came from, why they enlisted, and how their origins shaped their service. By showing how these Union sailors lived and fought on the sea, Bennett brings an important new perspective to our understanding of the Civil War.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807863246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Historians have given a great deal of attention to the lives and experiences of Civil War soldiers, but surprisingly little is known about navy sailors who participated in the conflict. Michael J. Bennett remedies the longstanding neglect of Civil War seamen in this comprehensive assessment of the experience of common Union sailors from 1861 to 1865. To resurrect the voices of the "Union Jacks," Bennett combed sailors' diaries, letters, and journals. He finds that the sailors differed from their counterparts in the army in many ways. They tended to be a rougher bunch of men than the regular soldiers, drinking and fighting excessively. Those who were not foreign-born, escaped slaves, or unemployed at the time they enlisted often hailed from the urban working class rather than from rural farms and towns. In addition, most sailors enlisted for pragmatic rather than ideological reasons. Bennett's examination provides a look into the everyday lives of sailors and illuminates where they came from, why they enlisted, and how their origins shaped their service. By showing how these Union sailors lived and fought on the sea, Bennett brings an important new perspective to our understanding of the Civil War.
History of the Union Jack and Flags of the Empire
Author: Barlow Cumberland
Publisher:
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Category : Emblems
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Emblems
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Story of the Union Jack
Author: Barlow Cumberland
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Debates of the Senate
Author: Canada. Parliament. Senate
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
The Parliamentary Debates (official Report).
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1292
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1292
Book Description
Mad Dogs and Englishness
Author: Lee Brooks
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501311255
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Mad Dogs and Englishness connects English popular music with questions about English national identities, featuring essays that range across Bowie and Burial, PJ Harvey, Bishi and Tricky. The later years of the 20th century saw a resurgence of interest in cultural and political meanings of Englishness in ways that continue to resonate now. Pop music is simultaneously on the outside and inside of the ensuing debates. It can be used as a mode of commentary about how meanings of Englishness circulate socially. But it also produces those meanings, often underwriting claims about English national cultural distinctiveness and superiority. This book's expert contributors use trans-national and trans-disciplinary perspectives to provide historical and contemporary commentaries about pop's complex relationships with Englishness. Each chapter is based on original research, and the essays comprise the best single volume available on pop and the English imaginary.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501311255
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Mad Dogs and Englishness connects English popular music with questions about English national identities, featuring essays that range across Bowie and Burial, PJ Harvey, Bishi and Tricky. The later years of the 20th century saw a resurgence of interest in cultural and political meanings of Englishness in ways that continue to resonate now. Pop music is simultaneously on the outside and inside of the ensuing debates. It can be used as a mode of commentary about how meanings of Englishness circulate socially. But it also produces those meanings, often underwriting claims about English national cultural distinctiveness and superiority. This book's expert contributors use trans-national and trans-disciplinary perspectives to provide historical and contemporary commentaries about pop's complex relationships with Englishness. Each chapter is based on original research, and the essays comprise the best single volume available on pop and the English imaginary.
Debates of the Senate of the Dominion of Canada
Author: Canada. Parliament. Senate
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
The Canadian Teacher ...
Author: Gideon E. Henderson
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1216
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1216
Book Description
United States Code
Author: United States
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1482
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1482
Book Description
Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board
Author: United States. National Labor Relations Board
Publisher:
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Category : Labor laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1654
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1654
Book Description