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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Hurrah for My New Free Country
Author: Leon Charles Fouquet
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780806122557
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A French immigrant describes life in the West during the late 1800s.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780806122557
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A French immigrant describes life in the West during the late 1800s.
The Last Hurrah of the James-Younger Gang
Author: Robert Barr Smith
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806133539
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
So small it had only one bank, so quiet no citizens carried guns. Hard-working, peaceful Northfield, Minnesota, was an orderly yet busy mill-town in the heart of prosperous farm country. On a serene autumn Tuesday in 1876, local shopkeepers, farmers, and citizenry went about their normal routines, little realizing that the infamous and deadly James-Younger gang had designs on tiny Northfield. The experienced robbers planned to target the single bank, which held the hard-earned money of the townsfolk. Jesse and Frank James and the Younger brothers had never experienced defeat. During a wild gun battle that raged between the outlaws and the bankmen up and down the town’s main street, two unarmed townsfolk were murdered. Northfield’s angered populace fought back. The townspeople killed two members of the James-Younger gang and wounded several more. The remaining bandits fled but were pursued across southwestern Minnesota by a posse that gradually grew to more than a thousand men. In Last Hurrah of the James-Younger Gang, Robert Barr Smith debunks the James-Younger "Robin Hood" image and shows that the real heroes of the Northfield raid were the ordinary people--the bankers who protected their depositors at their own risk, the townspeople who pitched in to chase the gang from town, and the posse members who pursued and triumphed over the retreating remnants of the gang.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806133539
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
So small it had only one bank, so quiet no citizens carried guns. Hard-working, peaceful Northfield, Minnesota, was an orderly yet busy mill-town in the heart of prosperous farm country. On a serene autumn Tuesday in 1876, local shopkeepers, farmers, and citizenry went about their normal routines, little realizing that the infamous and deadly James-Younger gang had designs on tiny Northfield. The experienced robbers planned to target the single bank, which held the hard-earned money of the townsfolk. Jesse and Frank James and the Younger brothers had never experienced defeat. During a wild gun battle that raged between the outlaws and the bankmen up and down the town’s main street, two unarmed townsfolk were murdered. Northfield’s angered populace fought back. The townspeople killed two members of the James-Younger gang and wounded several more. The remaining bandits fled but were pursued across southwestern Minnesota by a posse that gradually grew to more than a thousand men. In Last Hurrah of the James-Younger Gang, Robert Barr Smith debunks the James-Younger "Robin Hood" image and shows that the real heroes of the Northfield raid were the ordinary people--the bankers who protected their depositors at their own risk, the townspeople who pitched in to chase the gang from town, and the posse members who pursued and triumphed over the retreating remnants of the gang.
"Hurrah for the Blackshirts!"
Author: Martin Pugh
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Britain is celebrated for having avoided the extremism, political violence and instability that blighted many European countries between the two world wars. But her success was a closer thing than has been realized. Disillusionment with parliamentary democracy, outbreaks of fascist violence and fears of communist subversion in industry and the Empire ran through the entire period. Fascist organizations may have failed to attract the support they achieved elsewhere but fascist ideas were adopted from top to bottom of society and by men and women in all parts of the country. This book will demonstrate for the first time the true spread and depth of fascist beliefs - and the extent to which they were distinctly British. Like the Continental movements, fascism in the UK encompassed the corporate state, charismatic leadership and youthful rejection of the decadent rule of the older generation. But was it less anti-Semitic? Was it readier to adopt a feminist agenda? And was the fact that Britain finally repudiated fascism more a matter of timing and chance than of fundamental obstacles in British society and politics? HURRAH FOR THE BLACKSHIRTS!, rich in anecdotes and extraordinary characters, shows us an inter-war Britain on the high-road to fascism but never quite arriving at its destination.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Britain is celebrated for having avoided the extremism, political violence and instability that blighted many European countries between the two world wars. But her success was a closer thing than has been realized. Disillusionment with parliamentary democracy, outbreaks of fascist violence and fears of communist subversion in industry and the Empire ran through the entire period. Fascist organizations may have failed to attract the support they achieved elsewhere but fascist ideas were adopted from top to bottom of society and by men and women in all parts of the country. This book will demonstrate for the first time the true spread and depth of fascist beliefs - and the extent to which they were distinctly British. Like the Continental movements, fascism in the UK encompassed the corporate state, charismatic leadership and youthful rejection of the decadent rule of the older generation. But was it less anti-Semitic? Was it readier to adopt a feminist agenda? And was the fact that Britain finally repudiated fascism more a matter of timing and chance than of fundamental obstacles in British society and politics? HURRAH FOR THE BLACKSHIRTS!, rich in anecdotes and extraordinary characters, shows us an inter-war Britain on the high-road to fascism but never quite arriving at its destination.
Wisconsin Journal of Education
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ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Poetry and eloquence of Blue and Gray
Author: Francis Trevelyan Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Choice
Author:
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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The Photographic History of the Civil War ...: Poetry and eloquence of Blue and Gray
Author: Francis Trevelyan Miller
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The Photographic History of the Civil War in Ten Volumes: Poetry and eloquence of Blue and Gray
Author: Francis Trevelyan Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with test by many special authorities.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with test by many special authorities.
New York Teachers' Monographs
Author:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Biography Index
Author: Bea Joseph
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines.