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American Military History: A Survey from Colonial Times to the Present
William T. Allison, Georgia Southern University; Jeffrey G. Grey, Australian Defence Force Academy; and Janet G. Valentine, US Army Command and General Staff College
7-12-2012
Book Summary: American Military History is uniquely tailored to American military history courses. Organized chronologically, the text begins at the point of European conflict with Native Americans and concludes with military affairs in the early 21st century.
The content and style will appeal to history majors and non-majors and is designed to allow instructors flexibility in the structure of their course.
Companion Website: http://www.routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9780205898503/
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Documents in World History, Volume 1, 6th Edition
Peter N. Stearns, George Mason University; Stephen S. Gosch, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire; Erwin P. Grieshaber, Minnesota State University, Mankato; and Allison Scardino Belzer, Armstrong State Univeristy
2012
Georgia Southern faculty member Allison Scardino Belzer co-authored Documents in World History, Volume 1, 6th Edition.
Offers a range of documents that illustrates civilizations from key stages in world history, with special attention to comparing major societies.
For introductory courses in world history.Documents in World History is a thematically organized, authoritative collection of original sources that highlight political, social, cultural and economic issues in world history. The text also provides documents on the hot topics of gender and cultural history. Revised and updated with over a quarter of the documents new, the sixth edition retains its global emphasis. ... Read more
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Documents in World History, Volume 2, 6th Edition
Peter N. Stearns, George Mason University; Stephen S. Gosch, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire; Erwin P. Grieshaber, Minnesota State University, Mankato; and Allison Scardino Belzer, Armstrong State University
2012
Georgia Southern faculty member Allison Scardino Belzer co-authored Documents in World History, Volume 2, 6th Edition.
Offers a range of documents that illustrates civilizations from key stages in world history, with special attention to comparing major societies.
For introductory courses in world history.Documents in World History is a thematically organized, authoritative collection of original sources that highlight political, social, cultural and economic issues in world history. The text also provides documents on the hot topics of gender and cultural history. Revised and updated with over a quarter of the documents new, the sixth edition retains its global emphasis. ... Read more
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Remembering the Forgotten War: The Enduring Legacies of the U.S.-Mexican War
Michael S. Van Wagenen, Georgia Southern University
9-12-2012
Georgia Southern faculty member, Michael S. Van Wagenen, authored Remembering the Forgotten War: The Enduring Legacies of the U.S.-Mexican War. On February 2, 1848, representatives of the United States and Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo officially ending hostilities between the two countries and ceding over one-half million square miles of land to the northern victors. In Mexico, this defeat has gradually moved from the periphery of dishonor to the forefront of national consciousness. In the United States, the war has taken an opposite trajectory, falling from its once-celebrated prominence into the shadowy margins of forgetfulness and denial.
Why is ... Read more -
Women and the Great War: Femininity under Fire in Italy
Allison Scardino Belzer, Armstrong State Univeristy
2010
Georgia Southern faculty member Allison Scardino Belzer authored Women and the Great War: Femininity under Fire in Italy.
Drawing on both wartime discourse about women and the voices of individual women living at the Italian Front, Allison Belzer analyzes how women participated in the Great War and how it affected them. The Great War transformed women into purveyors and recipients of a new feminine ideal that emphasized their status as national citizens. Although Italian women did not gain the vote, they did encounter a less empowering form of female citizenship just after the war ended with Mussolini's Fascism. Because of ... Read more
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The Tet Offensive: A Brief History with Documents
William T. Allison, Georgia Southern University
3-19-2008
Book Summary: With Americans turning against the war in ever greater numbers, struggles for power between the government and the military, and no end in sight to the fighting, the Tet Offensive of 1968 proved to be the turning point of the Vietnam War. In The Tet Offensive, historian William Thomas Allison provides a clear, concise overview of the major events and issues surrounding the Tet Offensive, and compiles carefully selected primary sources to illustrate the complex military, political, and public decisions that made up Tet.
The Tet Offensive is composed of two parts: an accessible, well-illustrated narrative overview, and ... Read more
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Dreams, Myth, and Reality: Utah and the American West
William T. Allison, Georgia Southern University and Susan J. Matt, Weber State University
6-27-2008
Book Summary: During the settlement of the West, through the Civil War and Gold Rush periods, the average Anglo household consisted of two or three bachelor farmers or miners. The nuclear Ingalls family from Little House of the Prairie was less typical than Bonanza’s Cartwright family with three boys, a father, and a male cook.
There were exceptions. The Willamette Valley in Oregon was settled by traditional families who carved out a middle-class existence on small farms. In Utah Territory, less fertile soil and more fertile polygamous fathers produced families who struggled against poverty and isolation.
The first Americans out ... Read more
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Victorians and the Virgin Mary: Religion and Gender in England, 1830‐85
Carol M. Herringer, Georgia Southern University
2008
This interdisciplinary study of competing representations of the Virgin Mary examines how anxieties about religious and gender identities intersected to create public controversies that, whilst ostensibly about theology and liturgy, were also attempts to define the role and nature of women. Drawing on a variety of sources, this book seeks to revise our understanding of the Victorian religious landscape, both retrieving Catholics from the cultural margins to which they are usually relegated, and calling for a reassessment of the Protestant attitude to the feminine ideal.
This book will be useful to advanced students and scholars in a variety of disciplines ... Read more
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Reforming Priests and Parishes: Tuscan Dioceses in the First Century of Seminary Education
Kathleen M. Comerford, Georgia Southern University
10-5-2006
Book Summary: Reforming Priests and Parishes consists of case studies of diocesan seminaries in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Republic of Lucca from 1563-1660s. The major cases are Arezzo, Siena, Volterra and Lucca, and the dioceses and institutions are examined in their financial, educational, and religious milieux. Several other cases--Florence, Montepulciano, Pienza, and Pisa--are treated in less detail to provide contextual interpretative focal points. Most of the seminaries have never been treated in English-language studies before, and no comparative study exists in any language. All of the case studies contain in-depth analysis of rare primary source material.
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The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia
Christopher E. Hendricks, Georgia Southern University
11-15-2006
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Early Modern Catholicism: Essays in Honour of John O’Malley, S.J.
Kathleen M. Comerford, Georgia Southern University and Hilmar M. Pabel, Simon Fraser University
12-22-2002
Book Summary: The so-called Counter- or Catholic Reformation has traditionally been viewed as a monolith. John O'Malley, a distinguished scholar of the Renaissance and Reformation, has decisively challenged this interpretation, emphasizing the variety, vitality, and complexity of Catholicism in the early modern era. The essays in Early Modern Catholicism, written in O'Malley's honour, present new research on subjects ranging from art in China to popular religion, from new religious orders to colonial architecture, and suggest new interpretations of the accepted picture of various societies, institutions, and individuals which together constituted the Catholic Church in the period from the fifteenth through ... Read more
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Ordaining the Catholic Reformation: Priests and Seminary Pedagogy in Fiesole, 1575-1675
Kathleen M. Comerford, Georgia Southern University
2001
