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21	"What Are Marines For?" The United States Marine Corps in the Civil War Era Krivdo, Michael Edward 2011 May 1900 (has links) This dissertation provides analysis on several areas of study related to the history of the United States Marine Corps in the Civil War Era. One element scrutinizes the efforts of Commandant Archibald Henderson to transform the Corps into a more nimble and professional organization. Henderson's initiatives are placed within the framework of the several fundamental changes that the U.S. Navy was undergoing as it worked to experiment with, acquire, and incorporate new naval technologies into its own operational concept. Analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of Henderson's programs are provided and comparisons drawn with those priorities established by his successor, Commandant John Harris. In addition, the operations undertaken by the Corps during the Civil War are evaluated in terms of their relative benefit for the national military establishment as a whole. The Corps organization and operational concept is scrutinized and compared with that of similar military structures. In particular, the relationship between the U.S. Marine Corps and the Confederate States Marine Corps are compared. In the process, the South's Corps, born in part out of that of the North's, exhibited many distinct advantages that the USMC solidly resisted adopting during the war years. The influence of key leaders, both military and civilian, reveals many problems that continued to negatively affect the Corps' ability to meet operational requirements as defined by senior naval and Army commanders. Yet despite these issues, the Corps' Civil War experiences served as a crucible for forging a new generation of leaders who earnestly fought for reforms and increased professionalization of the unit. Although the Corps suffered from several problems related to lack of institutional vision and leadership failings of some senior officers, at a small unit level the officers and Marines performed their duties in a competent, enthusiastic, and courageous manner. Therefore, Marines continued to be in great demand by naval commanders at all levels, who actively sought their service in a variety of operation. United States Marine Corps Confederate States Marine Corps Archibald Henderson Civil War John Harris Gideon Welles Marine Battalion Fort Fisher Isaac Toucey Battle of Bull Run Secession Crisis John reynolds Jacob Zeilin
22	"Direful Vengeance": A U.S.-Mexican War Massacre and the Culture of Collective Violence in Nineteenth-Century North America Troester, Patrick T. 17 September 2014 (has links) No description available. History American History Latin American History Military History US-Mexican War Mexican War Mexican-American War Agua Nueva Catana massacre violence collective memory cultural history representation masculinity atrocity non-sanctioned violence 1847 John Wool Archibald Yell
23	The Great Gatsby and its 1925 Contemporaries Faust, Marjorie Ann Hollomon 16 April 2008 (has links) ABSTRACT This study focuses on twenty-one particular texts published in 1925 as contemporaries of The Great Gatsby. The manuscript is divided into four categories—The Impressionists, The Experimentalists, The Realists, and The Independents. Among The Impressionists are F. Scott Fitzgerald himself, Willa Cather (The Professor’s House), Sherwood Anderson (Dark Laughter), William Carlos Williams (In the American Grain), Elinor Wylie (The Venetian Glass Nephew), John Dos Passos (Manhattan Transfer), and William Faulkner (New Orleans Sketches). The Experimentalists are Gertrude Stein (The Making of Americans), E. E. Cummings (& aka “Poems 48-96”), Ezra Pound (A Draft of XVI Cantos), T. S. Eliot (“The Hollow Men”), Laura Riding (“Summary for Alastor”), and John Erskine (The Private Life of Helen of Troy). The Realists are Theodore Dreiser (An American Tragedy), Edith Wharton (The Mother’s Recompense), Upton Sinclair (Mammonart), Ellen Glasgow (Barren Ground), Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith), James Boyd (Drums), and Ernest Hemingway (In Our Time). The Independents are Archibald MacLeish (The Pot of Earth) and Robert Penn Warren (“To a Face in a Crowd”). Although these twenty-two texts may in some cases represent literary fragmentations, each in its own way also represents a coherent response to the spirit of the times that is in one way or another cognate to The Great Gatsby. The fact that all these works appeared the same year is special because the authors, if not already famous, would become famous, and their works were or would come to represent classic American literature around the world. The twenty-two authors either knew each other personally or knew each other’s works. Naturally, they were also influenced by writings of international authors and philosophers. The greatest common elements among the poets and fiction writers are their uninhibited interest in sex, an absorbing cynicism about life, and the frequent portrayal of disintegration of the family, a trope for what had happened to the countries and to the “family of nations” that experienced the Great War. In 1925, it would seem, Fitzgerald and many of his writing peers—some even considered his betters—channeled a major spirit of the times, and Fitzgerald did it more successfully than almost anyone. F. Scott Fitzgerald Willa Cather Sherwood Anderson William Carlos Williams Elinor Wiley John Dos Passos William Faulkner Gertrude Stein E. E. Cummings Ezra Pound T. S. Eliot Laura Riding John Erskine Theodore Dreiser Edith Wharton Upton Sinclair Ellen Glasgow Sinclair Lewis James Boyd Ernest Hemingway Archibald MacLeish Robert Penn Warren English Language and Literature
24	Tse Keh Nay-European Relations and Ethnicity: 1790s-2009 Sims, Daniel Unknown Date No description available. Tse Keh Nay Sekani Ethnicity History Tsay Keh Dene Ingenika Fort Grahame Fort Ware Kwadacha McLeod Lake Takla Lake Bear Lake Fort Connelly Fort Nelson Finlay Forks Adrien Gabriel Morice Alexander MacKenzie Simon Fraser Daniel William Harmon Samuel Black Archibald McDonald John Stuart Treaty No. 8 McLeod Lake Adhesion BC Treaty Process Beaver Dunneza McKenna-McBride Royal Commission Indian Reserve Commission British Columbia Land Claims
25	Tse Keh Nay-European Relations and Ethnicity: 1790s-2009 Sims, Daniel 06 1900 (has links) This thesis examines Tse Keh Nay (Sekani) ethnic identity over three periods of Aboriginal-European relations: the fur trade period, the missionary period, and the treaty and reserve period. It examines the affects these three periods have had on the Tse Keh Nay as an ethnic group in four chapters, the first two dealing with the fur trade and missionary periods, and the last two with the treaty and reserve aspects of the treaty and reserve period. In it I argue that during the first two periods wider Tse Keh Nay ethnic identity was reinforced, while during the latter period local Tse Keh Nay identities were reinforced through government policies that dealt with Tse Keh Nay subgroups on a regional and localized basis. Despite this shift in emphasis, wider Tse Keh Nay ethnic identity has remained, proving that Tse Keh Nay ethnic identity is both situational and dynamic. / History Tse Keh Nay Sekani Ethnicity History Tsay Keh Dene Ingenika Fort Grahame Fort Ware Kwadacha McLeod Lake Takla Lake Bear Lake Fort Connelly Fort Nelson Finlay Forks Adrien Gabriel Morice Alexander MacKenzie Simon Fraser Daniel William Harmon Samuel Black Archibald McDonald John Stuart Treaty No. 8 McLeod Lake Adhesion BC Treaty Process Beaver Dunneza McKenna-McBride Royal Commission Indian Reserve Commission British Columbia Land Claims

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