Author: Robert Blobaum File Type: pdf In A Minor Apocalypse, Robert Blobaum explores the social and cultural history of Warsaws forgotten war of 19141918. Beginning with the bank panic that accompanied the outbreak of the Great War, Blobaum guides his readers through spy scares, bombardments, mass migratory movements, and the Russian evacuation of 1915. Industrial collapse marked only the opening phase of Warsaws wartime economic crisis, which grew steadily worse during the German occupation. Requisitioning and strict control of supplies entering the city resulted in scarcity amid growing corruption, rapidly declining living standards, and major public health emergencies. Blobaum shows how conflicts over distribution of and access to resources led to social divisions, a sharp deterioration in Polish-Jewish relations, and general distrust in public institutions. Womens public visibility, demands for political representation, and perceived threats to the patriarchal order during the war years sustained one arena of cultural debate. New modes of popular entertainment, including cinema, cabaret, and variety shows, created another, particularly as they challenged elite notions of propriety. Blobaum presents these themes in comparative context, not only with other major European cities during the Great War but also with Warsaw under Nazi German occupation a generation later. **

Author: John M. Alexander File Type: pdf There have been many books written about Johnny Cash, but The Man in Song is the first to examine Cashs incredible life through the lens of the songs he wrote and recorded. Music journalist and historian John Alexander has drawn on decades of studying Cashs music and life, from his difficult depression-era Arkansas childhood through his death in 2003, to tell a life story through songs familiar and obscure. In discovering why Cash wrote a given song or chose to record it, Alexander introduces readers anew to a man whose primary consideration of any song was the difference music makes in peoples lives, and not whether the song would become a hit. The hits came, of course. Johnny Cash sold more than fifty million albums in forty years, and he holds the distinction of being the only performer inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. The Man in Song connects treasured songs to an incredible life. It explores the intertwined experience and creativity of childhood trauma. It rifles through the discography of a life Cashs work with the Tennessee Two at Sam Phillipss Sun Studios, the unique concept albums Cash recorded for Columbia Records, the spiritual songs, the albums recorded live at prisons, songs about the love of his life, June Carter Cash, songs about murder and death and addiction, songs about ramblers, and even silly songs. Appropriate for both serious country and folk music enthusiasts and those just learning about this musical legend, The Man in Song will appeal to a fan base spanning generations. Here is a biography for those who first heard I Walk the Line in 1956, a younger generation who discovered Cash through songs like his cover of Trent Reznors Hurt, and everyone in between. **

Author: John Grenier File Type: pdf This book explores the evolution of Americans first way of war, to show how war waged again Indian noncombatant population and agricultural resources became the method early Americans employed and, ultimately, defined their military heritage. The sanguinary story of the American conquest of the Indian peoples east of the Mississippi River helps demonstrate how early Americans embraced warfare shaped by extravagant violence and focused on conquest. Grenier provides a major revision in understanding the place of warfare directed on noncombatants in the American military tradition, and his conclusions are relevant to understand US special operations in the War on Terror.ReviewRead it as a clear, informed survey of the lesser-known wars of early American history, or as a strongly argued reinterpretation of the pattern and relevance of early American military experience, John Greniers excellent book earns a place on the short shelf of essential books in U.S. military history. -John Shy, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Michigan, Ann ArborJohn Grenier demonstrates convincingly that there was an American way of war in the colonial and revolutionary eras, which was before the time when previous historians have acknowledged the beginnings of an American pattern of conflict. This earlier form of warfare was in some respects far more brutal and devastating than what came later but the tendency to blur the differences between civilians and combatants has remained a troubling part of our martial heritage. Greniers impressive volume will require us to rethink the contours of American military history. -Don Higginbotham, Dowd Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillThe First Way of War offers an important reminder that early Americans fought their wars in a variety of ways. One way was largely designed for Indians, depended on unconventional methods, and could be terrifyingly violent. Based on wide and deep research, Grenier surveys a variety of wars between American colonists and Indians, covering both familiar and rarely-tread ground, and details the different techniques tried, adopted, and sometimes discarded as the colonists struggled to find a way to defeat a resilient and resourceful enemy. This is a significant contribution to the increasingly complex and subtle field of early American military history. -Professor Wayne E. Lee, Department of History, The University of LouisvilleGrenier makes a strong case that a distinctive method of American warfare emerged during the colonial era. The author has the rare facility of combining an exciting narrative with thought-provoking analysis. A well-researched and well-written book that deserves serious consideration. -Brian McAllister Linn, Texas A&M UniversityThe First Way of War is a well-crafted and exhaustively documented piece of scholarship, with each footnote an authoritative mini-bibliographical essay. -Thomas W. Cutrer, Arizona State University, Military History...Greniers study reveals North Americas four-hundred-year continuum of irregular warfare and challenges Americans to confront the stark realities of their martial culture. -Kevin T. Barksdale, Marshall University, The Virginia Magazine of History and BiographyThe book works well as an overview of warfare in eastern North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Greniers long perspective usefully conflates a multitude of little wars into a long-term struggle between Europeans and native peoples for survival and dominance in North America, a struggle that climaxed in the British triumph in the French and Indian War. -Andrew Cayton, Miami University, The International History Reviewwell-written monograph...thanks in part to Greniers lucid prose, we have an excellent analysis of how Americans waged unlimited war from the early colonial period to the beginning of the Republic. -John Richard Mass, Ohio State University, The North Carolina Historical ReviewThe books strength lies in its recognition and treatment of the asymmetrical dimension of war as it relates to societies and cultures in general...Greniers book is lucid and well-written -MAJ Joseph P. Alessi, USA, Military Review[Grenier] has addressed the arguments of would-be critics like myself with a sound analytical framework and a well-researched and well-presented narrative. Scholars of American history and of military history will find this book thoughtful and highly provocative. -Guy Chet, University of North Texas, American Historical Review...a richly insightful contribution to the literature on American ways of war. -Adam Jones, Journal of Genocide ResearchThe First Way of Ware is a well-researched and thought-provoking work overall. In addition, the historiographical magnitude of Greniers arguments alone should make it required reading for serious students of early American military history. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Wesley T. Joyner, University of Southern Mississippi Book DescriptionThis book explores the evolution of Americans first way of war, to show how war waged again Indian noncombatant population and agricultural resources became the method early Americans employed and, ultimately, defined their military heritage.

Author: Jake Adam York File Type: pdf p Segoe UIThe Architecture of Addresstraces the evolution of an American species of lyric capable of public pronouncement without polemic. Beginning with Whitman, Jake Adam York seeks to describe a kind of poem wherein the most ambitious poets--including Hart Crane and Robert Lowell--occupy and reconstruct important public spaces. This study argues that American poets become civic actors when their poems imagine and reconstruct the conceptual architecture of the monument.p Segoe UI**p Segoe UIJake Adam Yorkis currently Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado. His criticism has appeared in theWalt Whitman Quarterly Reviewand his poems have appeared in * Shenandoah, * The Southern Review, * Crab OrchardReview*, and other periodicals.