Author: Ginetta Sagan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Violations of Human Rights in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, April 30, 1975-April 30, 1983
Author: Ginetta Sagan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Yvain
Author: Chretien de Troyes
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300187580
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300187580
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.
Between the Enemy and Texas
Author: Anne J. Bailey
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 0875655149
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Much of the Civil War west of the Mississippi was a war of waiting for action, of foraging already stripped land for an army that supposedly could provision itself, and of disease in camp, while trying to hold out against Union pressure. There were none of the major engagements that characterized the conflict farther east. Instead, small units of Confederate cavalry and infantry skirmished with Federal forces in Arkansas, Missouri, and Louisiana, trying to hold the western Confederacy together. The many units of Texans who joined this fight had a second objective—to keep the enemy out of their home state by placing themselves “between the enemy and Texas.” Historian Anne J. Bailey studies one Texas unit, Parsons's Cavalry Brigade, to show how the war west of the Mississippi was fought. Historian Norman D. Brown calls this “the definitive study of Parsons's Cavalry Brigade; the story will not need to be told again.” Exhaustively researched and written with literary grace, Between the Enemy and Texas is a “must” book for anyone interested in the role of mounted troops in the Trans-Mississippi Department.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 0875655149
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Much of the Civil War west of the Mississippi was a war of waiting for action, of foraging already stripped land for an army that supposedly could provision itself, and of disease in camp, while trying to hold out against Union pressure. There were none of the major engagements that characterized the conflict farther east. Instead, small units of Confederate cavalry and infantry skirmished with Federal forces in Arkansas, Missouri, and Louisiana, trying to hold the western Confederacy together. The many units of Texans who joined this fight had a second objective—to keep the enemy out of their home state by placing themselves “between the enemy and Texas.” Historian Anne J. Bailey studies one Texas unit, Parsons's Cavalry Brigade, to show how the war west of the Mississippi was fought. Historian Norman D. Brown calls this “the definitive study of Parsons's Cavalry Brigade; the story will not need to be told again.” Exhaustively researched and written with literary grace, Between the Enemy and Texas is a “must” book for anyone interested in the role of mounted troops in the Trans-Mississippi Department.
Kirby Smith's Confederacy
Author: Robert L. Kerby
Publisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Offers a case study of a segment of American society that consumed itself by surrendering everything in pursuit of unattainable military victory With the surrender of Vicksburg in July 1863, the Confederacy's TransMississippi Department, which included Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, western Louisiana, and Indian Territory, was cut off from the remainder of the South. Robert Kerby's insightful volume, originally published in 1972, "has gone far toward filling one of the most conspicuous gaps in the literature on the Confederacy," according to The Journal of Southern History. Kerby investigates the many factors that led to the Department's disintegrating and offers a case study of a segment of American society that consumed itself by surrendering everything, including its principles and ideals, in pursuit of an unattainable military victory.
Publisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Offers a case study of a segment of American society that consumed itself by surrendering everything in pursuit of unattainable military victory With the surrender of Vicksburg in July 1863, the Confederacy's TransMississippi Department, which included Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, western Louisiana, and Indian Territory, was cut off from the remainder of the South. Robert Kerby's insightful volume, originally published in 1972, "has gone far toward filling one of the most conspicuous gaps in the literature on the Confederacy," according to The Journal of Southern History. Kerby investigates the many factors that led to the Department's disintegrating and offers a case study of a segment of American society that consumed itself by surrendering everything, including its principles and ideals, in pursuit of an unattainable military victory.
The Campaigns of Walker's Texas Division
Author: Joseph Palmer Blessington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : McCulloch's division (CSA).
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : McCulloch's division (CSA).
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
POW-MIA Fact Book
Author:
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Category : Prisoners of war
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prisoners of war
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress Senate
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2588
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2588
Book Description
Historical Times Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War
Author: Patricia L. Faust
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
This book offers an illustrated encyclopedia that can be used as a reference work for the Civil War as well as for recreational reading.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
This book offers an illustrated encyclopedia that can be used as a reference work for the Civil War as well as for recreational reading.
The Civil War in the American West
Author: Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
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Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
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A Woman's Way
Author: Flora Solomon
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A once-wealthy woman recounts her life of comfort in pre-revolutionary Russia. She describes her years as an emigre, her pioneering efforts for better employee conditions in London and her involvement with Zionism.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A once-wealthy woman recounts her life of comfort in pre-revolutionary Russia. She describes her years as an emigre, her pioneering efforts for better employee conditions in London and her involvement with Zionism.