Описание: During World War II, thousands of Axis prisoners of war were held throughout Nebraska in base camps that included Fort Robinson, Camp Scottsbluff and Camp Atlanta. Many Nebraskans did not view the POWs as "evil Nazis." To them, they were ordinary men and
Описание: "Towne's narrative is a fascinating whodunit, with its vivid portrayal of Union commanders hiring questionable detectives in an effort to stymie the Knights of the Golden Circle, a loose collection of Confederate sympathizers in the Old Northwest. A valuable addition to any library seeking to upgrade its collection with a regional slant to the US Civil War. Summing Up: Highly recommended." --CHOICE?
A History Book Club Reading Selection
Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War represents pathbreaking research on the rise of U.S. Army intelligence operations in the Midwest during the American Civil War and counters long-standing assumptions about Northern politics and society. At the beginning of the rebellion, state governors in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois cooperated with federal law enforcement officials in various attempts--all failed--to investigate reports of secret groups and individuals who opposed the Union war effort. Starting in 1862, army commanders took it upon themselves to initiate investigations of antiwar sentiment in those states. By 1863, several of them had established intelligence operations staffed by hired civilian detectives and by soldiers detailed from their units to chase down deserters and draft dodgers, to maintain surveillance on suspected persons and groups, and to investigate organized resistance to the draft. By 1864, these spies had infiltrated secret organizations that, sometimes in collaboration with Confederate rebels, aimed to subvert the war effort. Stephen E. Towne is the first to thoroughly explore the role and impact of Union spies against Confederate plots in the North. This new analysis invites historians to delve more deeply into the fabric of the Northern wartime experience and reinterpret the period based on broader archival evidence.
Автор: Cross Neil Название: Heartland: A Memoir ISBN: 1497692784 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781497692787 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3309.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From the creator of Luther Told with absolute veracity and unsparing candor, Heartland is the memoir of an isolated little boy and the brutish stepfather he couldn't help but love
When Neil Cross was born, his mother suffered from severe postpartum depression and later admitted to trying to kill herself and her baby son. Then, when he was five, she "went out and didn't come back," leaving behind her children and their heartbroken father.
Two years later she returns and gains custody of Neil, taking him to live with her new partner, Derek Cross, who showers him with attention and love in a way that Neil has never known. Derek teaches him about music and books; he is patient but firm, and more reliable than Neil's mother.
But as Neil grows older he realizes his stepfather is more complicated than he seems. For all his love, Derek is a manipulator, an adulterer, a racist, and a con man. And he is the father whom Neil now loves.
With devastating honesty, Neil Cross explores the circumstances of this love--one of pleasant rewards but consequences too dire to predict.
Описание: No state has voted Republican more consistently or widely or for longer than Kansas. To understand red state politics, Kansas is the place. It is also the place to understand red state religion. This title tells the story of religiously motivated political activism in Kansas from territorial days to the present.
Автор: Givel Michael S., Spivak Andrew L. Название: Heartland Tobacco War ISBN: 0739176927 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739176924 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 10395.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Boeing 727 pilot Scott McKay discovers a strange crate in the cargo hold little suspecting that it carries a thermo-nuclear bomb. Who is responsible? Can it be disposed of before it detonates? The clock has started ticking...From the author of `Pandora`s Clock` a gripping thriller, of the Tom Clancy genre. Previously announced in March `98 Guide. Publisher has raised the stakes on this one and will promote heavily.
Описание: Trying to survive on the richest farmland in America has produced some of the nation`s poorest people. Yet, this book argues, as pertains to rural poverty, the usual definitions and criteria don`t always apply, the known predictors of poverty don`t necessarily hold up -and rural people save themselves again and again, because they know no one else will.
Автор: Vega Sujey Название: Latino Heartland: Of Borders and Belonging in the Midwest ISBN: 1479896047 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781479896042 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4891.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: National immigration debates have thrust both opponents of immigration and immigrant rights supporters into the news. But what happens once the rallies end and the banners come down? What is daily life like for Latinos who have been presented nationally as “terrorists, drug smugglers, alien gangs, and violent criminals”? Latino Heartland offers an ethnography of the Latino and non-Latino residents of a small Indiana town, showing how national debate pitted neighbor against neighbor—and the strategies some used to combat such animosity. It conveys the lived impact of divisive political rhetoric on immigration and how race, gender, class, and ethnicity inform community belonging in the twenty-first century. Latino Heartland illuminates how community membership was determined yet simultaneously re-made by those struggling to widen the scope of who was imagined as a legitimate resident citizen of this Midwestern space. The volume draws on interviews with Latinos—both new immigrants and long-standing U.S. citizens—and whites, as well as African Americans, to provide a sense of the racial dynamics in play as immigrants asserted their right to belong to the community. Latino Hoosiers asserted a right to redefine what belonging meant within their homes, at their spaces of worship, and in the public eye. Through daily acts of ethnic belonging, Spanish-speaking residents navigated their own sense of community that did not require that they abandon their difference just to be accepted. In Latino Heartland, Sujey Vega addresses the politics of immigration, showing us how increasingly diverse towns can work toward embracing their complexity.
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