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| august 1st in history: Rites of August First Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie, 2007-08 In Rites of August First, J.R. Kerr-Ritchie provides the first detailed analysis of the origins, nature, and consequences of August First Daythe most important annual celebration of the emancipation of colonial slavery throughout the British Empire. Spanning the Western hemisphere, Kerr-Ritchie successfully unravels the cultural politics of emancipation celebrations, analyzing the social practices informed by public ritual, symbol, and spectacle designed to elicit feelings of common identity among blacks in the Atlantic world. |
| august 1st in history: August 1914 Bruno Cabanes, 2016-08-23 A renowned military historian closely examines the first month of World War I in France. On August 1, 1914, war erupted into the lives of millions of families across France. Most people thought the conflict would last just a few weeks . . . Yet before the month was out, twenty-seven thousand French soldiers died on the single day of August 22 alone—the worst catastrophe in French military history. Refugees streamed into France as the German army advanced, spreading rumors that amplified still more the ordeal of war. Citizens of enemy countries who were living in France were viciously scapegoated. Drawing from diaries, personal correspondence, police reports, and government archives, Bruno Cabanes renders an intimate, narrative-driven study of the first weeks of World War I in France. Told from the perspective of ordinary women and men caught in the flood of mobilization, this revealing book deepens our understanding of the traumatic impact of war on soldiers and civilians alike. “An exceptional book, a brilliant, moving, and insightful analysis of national mobilization.” —Martha Hanna, author of Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War “This book deserves a wide readership from historians, critics and anyone interested in the catastrophe of war.” —Mary Louise Roberts, Distinguished Lucie Aubrac and Plaenert-Bascom Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison “The sounds, sights and emotions of August, 1914 are all evoked with exceptional skill.” —David A. Bell, author of The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It |
| august 1st in history: U.S. History P. Scott Corbett, Volker Janssen, John M. Lund, Todd Pfannestiel, Sylvie Waskiewicz, Paul Vickery, 2024-09-10 U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender. |
| august 1st in history: The Age of Catastrophe Heinrich August Winkler, 2015-01-01 One of Germany's leading historians presents an ambitious and masterful account of the years encompassing the two world wars Characterized by global war, political revolution and national crises, the period between 1914 and 1945 was one of the most horrifying eras in the history of the West. A noted scholar of modern German history, Heinrich August Winkler examines how and why Germany so radically broke with the normative project of the West and unleashed devastation across the world. In this total history of the thirty years between the start of World War One and the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Winkler blends historical narrative with political analysis and encompasses military strategy, national identity, class conflict, economic development and cultural change. The book includes astutely observed chapters on the United States, Japan, Russia, Britain, and the other European powers, and Winkler's distinctly European perspective offers insights beyond the accounts written by his British and American counterparts. As Germany takes its place at the helm of a unified Europe, Winkler's fascinating account will be widely read and debated for years to come. |
| august 1st in history: The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages Ludwig Freiherr von Pastor, 1928 |
| august 1st in history: Why England Slept John F. Kennedy, 2016-04-04 Originally published in 1940, Why England Slept was written by then-Harvard student and future American president John F. Kennedy. It was Kennedy's senior thesis that analyzed the tremendous miscalculations of the British leaders in facing Germany on the advent of World War II, and in doing so, also addressed the challenges that democracies face when confronted directly with fascist states. In Why England Slept, at the book's core, John F. Kennedy asks: Why was England so poorly prepared for the war? He provides a comprehensive analysis of the tremendous miscalculations of the British leadership when it came to dealing with Germany and leads readers into considering other questions: Was the poor state of the British army the reason Chamberlain capitulated at Munich, or were there other, less-obvious elements at work that allowed this to happen? Kennedy also looks at similarities to America's position of unpreparedness and makes astute observations about the implications involved. This re-publication of the classic book contains excerpts from the foreword to the 1940 original edition by Henry R. Luce, an American magazine magnate during that era; the foreword to the 1961 edition, also written by Luce; and a new foreword by Stephen C. Schlesinger, written in 2015. |
| august 1st in history: Naval Documents of the American Revolution: American theatre: Aug. 1, 1776-Oct. 31, 1776. European theatre: May 26, 1776-Oct. 5, 1776 United States. Naval History Division, 1972 In the tradition of the preceding volumes - the first of which was published in 1964 - this work synthesizes edited documents, including correspondence, ship logs, muster rolls, orders, and newspaper accounts, that provide a comprehensive understanding of the war at sea in the spring of 1778. The editors organize this wide array of texts chronologically by theater and incorporate French, Italian, and Spanish transcriptions with English translations throughout. |
| august 1st in history: The Discovery of Oxygen Joseph Priestley, 1894 |
| august 1st in history: Herman Melville - Mariner and Mystic Raymond M. Weaver, 2016-08-25 Devil's Advocate, Ghosts, Parents and Early Years, A Substitute for Pistol and Ball, Discoveries on Two Continents, Pedagogy, Pugilism and Letters, Blubber and Mysticism, Leviathan, The Pacific, Man-Eating Epicures—The Marquesas, Mutiny and Missionaries—Tahiti, On Board a Man-of-War, to the Racing Tide, Across the Atlantic Again, Neighbour of Hawthorne's, The Great Refusal, The Long Quietus, Bibliography |
| august 1st in history: Norse America Gordon Campbell, 2021 The story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh centuries to the myths and fabrications about their presence there that have developed in recent centuries. Tracking the saga of the Norse across the North Atlantic to America, Norse America sets the record straight about the idea that the Vikings 'discovered' America. The journey described is a continuum, with evidence-based history and archaeology at one end, and fake history and outright fraud at the other. In between there lies a huge expanse of uncertainty: sagas that may contain shards of truth, characters that may be partly historical, real archaeology that may be interpreted through the fictions of saga, and fragmentary evidence open to responsible and irresponsible interpretation. Norse America is a book that tells two stories. The first is the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh centuries, ending (but not culminating) in a fleeting and ill-documented presence on the shores of the North American mainland. The second is the appropriation and enhancement of the westward narrative by Canadians and Americans who want America to have had white North European origins, who therefore want the Vikings to have 'discovered' America, and who in the advancement of that thesis have been willing to twist and manufacture evidence in support of claims grounded in an ideology of racial superiority. |
| august 1st in history: History of Kalamazoo County, Michigan Samuel W. Durant, 1880 |
| august 1st in history: The Guns of August Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, 2008 |
| august 1st in history: A Journey To, on and from the "Golden Shore". Sue A. Sanders, 1887 Sue A. Pike Sanders (1842-1931) traveled by rail from Delavan, Illinois, as part of the state's delegation to the Grand Army of the Republic encampment at San Francisco in 1886. A journey to, on and from the golden shore (1887) describes that leisurely trip west with stops in Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Salt Lake City, Reno, and Sacramento. Once in San Francisco, Sanders provides details of the program for the G.A.R. convention and its attendant parades and receptions, Bay excursion cruise, and tours of Chinatown. She makes side trips to Oakland, San José, Napa Valley, the geysers, and Yosemite. In Southern California, Sanders and her party visit Los Angeles to embark on their return journey, which takes them to Flagstaff and Albuquerque. |
| august 1st in history: Maryland Historical Magazine William Hand Browne, Louis Henry Dielman, 1907 Includes the proceedings of the Society. |
| august 1st in history: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1861-65): pt. 1. Surgical history United States. Surgeon-General's Office, 1876 |
| august 1st in history: Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut William Richard Cutter, 1911 |
| august 1st in history: the historical magazine and notes and queries concerning the antiques, history and biography of america vol. 1 second series , 1867 |
| august 1st in history: History of Mercer County , 1882 |
| august 1st in history: History of Detroit and Wayne County and Early Michigan Silas Farmer, 1890 |
| august 1st in history: English topography: or, A series of historical and statistical descriptions of the several counties of England and Wales, by the author of historical and descriptive delineations of London and Westminster (J. Nightingale). Joseph Nightingale, 1816 |
| august 1st in history: History of Friedrich the Second Thomas Carlyle, 1901 |
| august 1st in history: Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle , 1837 |
| august 1st in history: History of the United Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of the Mysterious Ten William H. Gibson, 1897 |
| august 1st in history: Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.: 1-6810 George Washington Cullum, 1920 |
| august 1st in history: The Chronology of History Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, 1838 |
| august 1st in history: The Chronology of History Nicolas, 1838 |
| august 1st in history: History of Friedrich II of Prussia (All 21 Volumes) Thomas Carlyle, 2023-11-19 History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great was a biography of Friedrich II of Prussia written by Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle. Frederick II was a Prussian king and military leader who ruled the Kingdom of Prussia from 1740 until 1786, reigning longer than any other Hohenzollern king. The work is made up of 21 books and an appendix. Table of Contents: Book I: Birth and Parentage (1712) Book II: Of Brandenburg and the Hohenzollerns (928 - 1417) Book III: The Hohenzollerns in Brandenburg (1412 - 1718) Book IV: Friedrich's Apprenticeship, First Stage (1713 - 1728) Book V: Double-Marriage Project, and What Element It Fell Into (1723 - 1726) Book VI: Double-Marriage Project, and Crown-Prince, Going Adrift Under the Storm-Winds (1727 - 1730) Book VII: Fearful Shipwreck of the Double-Marriage Project (February - November 1730) Book VIII: Crown-Prince Retrieved: Life at Custrin (November 1730 - February 1732) Book IX: Last Stage of Friedrich's Apprenticeship: Life in Ruppin (1732 - 1736) Book X: At Rheinsberg (1736 - 1740) Book XI: Friedrich Takes the Reins in Hand (June - December 1740) Book XII: First Silesian War, Awakening a General European One, Begins (December 1740 - May 1741) Book XIII: First Silesian War, Leaving the General European One Ablaze All Round, Gets Ended (May 1741 - July 1742) Book XIV: The Surrounding European War Does Not End (August 1742 - July 1744) Book XV: Second Silesian War, Important Episode in the General European One (15 August 1744 - 25 December 1745) Book XVI: The Ten Years of Peace (1746 - 1756) Book XVII: The Seven-Years War: First Campaign (1756 - 1757) Book XVIII: Seven-Years War Rises to a Height (1757 - 1759) Book XIX: Friedrich Like to Be Overwhelmed in the Seven-Years War (1759 - 1760) Book XX: Friedrich is Not to Be Overwhelmed: The Seven-Years War Gradually Ends (25 April 1760 - 15 February 1763) Book XXI: Afternoon and Evening of Friedrich's Life (1763 - 1786) Appendix |
| august 1st in history: The Postcolonial World Jyotsna G. Singh, David D. Kim, 2016-10-04 The Postcolonial World presents an overview of the field and extends critical debate in exciting new directions. It provides an important and timely reappraisal of postcolonialism as an aesthetic, political, and historical movement, and of postcolonial studies as a multidisciplinary, transcultural field. Essays map the terrain of the postcolonial as a global phenomenon at the intersection of several disciplinary inquiries. Framed by an introductory chapter and a concluding essay, the eight sections examine: Affective, Postcolonial Histories Postcolonial Desires Religious Imaginings Postcolonial Geographies and Spatial Practices Human Rights and Postcolonial Conflicts Postcolonial Cultures and Digital Humanities Ecocritical Inquiries in Postcolonial Studies Postcolonialism versus Neoliberalism The Postcolonial World looks afresh at re-emerging conditions of postcoloniality in the twenty-first century and draws on a wide range of representational strategies, cultural practices, material forms, and affective affiliations. The volume is an essential reading for scholars and students of postcolonialism. |
| august 1st in history: The Indiana Quarterly Magazine of History , 1912 |
| august 1st in history: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1861-65) United States. Surgeon-General's Office, 1877 |
| august 1st in history: History of the 320th Infantry Abroad Thomas Hall Westlake, 1923 |
| august 1st in history: History of Fort Wayne, from the Earliest Known Accounts of this Point to the Present Period Wallace A. Brice, 1868 |
| august 1st in history: Bi-centennial History of Albany George Rogers Howell, 1886 |
| august 1st in history: Harmsworth History of the World: Ancient nations of the Near East. Western Asia. Egypt. Africa Arthur Mee, 1908 |
| august 1st in history: Documentary History of the State of Maine Maine Historical Society, 1910 |
| august 1st in history: History of the Bank of England A.M. Andreades, 2013-09-05 First Published in 1966. This volume the fourth edition of Andreades classic history of the bank of England that looks at the period of 1640 to 1903, with its first edition appearing in 1909. The reprint after more than thirty years after the author's death has now secured its place among the classics of economic literature. |
| august 1st in history: History and Digest of the International Arbitrations to which the United States Has Been a Party John Bassett Moore, 1898 |
| august 1st in history: New Jersey History , 1847 |
| august 1st in history: A History of European Diplomacy, 1914-1925 Robert Balmain Mowat, 1927 Printed in Great Britain. |
| august 1st in history: Annual Report of the American Historical Association American Historical Association, 1903 |
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