Dear Sarah

Sample

edición de Iker González-Allende

"Este libro consiste en la edición de 188 cartas inéditas que, desde 1906 hasta 1970, Pilar de Zubiaurre (Garai, Bizkaia, 1884-Ciudad de México, 1970) escribió y mayormente recibió de numerosos intelectuales y artistas del ámbito hispánico, desde José Ortega y Gasset hasta Zenobia Camprubí y María Martos de Baeza. El volumen se divide en tres apartados organizados cronológicamente: cartas de juventud, cartas durante la Guerra Civil y cartas durante el exilio. En la primera de estas secciones se aprecia la activa vida cultural española durante los años 20 y 30, incluyendo numerosas misivas de pintores y escritores. La segunda sección revela los esfuerzos propagandísticos de los intelectuales republicanos durante la guerra, así como las dificultades de la vida cotidiana. Finalmente, la tercera sección, la más amplia del libro, recoge cartas de otros exiliados como Gonzalo Rodríguez Lafora, cartas que Zubiaurre recibe desde España de familiares y amigos, y cartas de intelectuales americanos como Susana Huntington. Sobresalen las cartas de amigas como Camprubí y Martos de Baeza porque muestran cómo durante el exilio las mujeres mantuvieron viva la memoria republicana y trazaron puentes de comunicación entre Españ̃a y las comunidades de exiliados en América." -- Back cover.

Sample

Maris A. Vinovskis

The American Civil War has been the subject of thousands of books and articles, but only a small fraction of this literature examines the impact of the war on society and on the lives of the participants. This volume of essays, which focuses on the North, is intended as an initial reconnaissance by social historians into the study of the Civil War. The first essay, 'Have Social Historians Lost the Civil War?' places the war in the broader context of other American wars by comparing casualty rates. The essay also examines rates of enlistment for the North and the South, and the significance of pensions for Union soldiers and their windows. Subsequent essays look at the support for the war in small towns; the influence of nineteenth-century values and culture on Union soldiers; the nature and role of large-scale relief efforts for soldiers in Philadelphia; and the impact of the war on the politics of Chicago. The final two essays discuss the continuing importance of the war for its survivors: one by looking at those who joined the major national organization of Union veterans; and the other by studying the impact of the Civil War on Union widows in three Northern towns. Taken together, the essays demonstrate the need for historians to rediscover the impact of the Civil War on nineteenth-century society.

Sample

Sigmund von Birken

This volume presents 430 poems and poem groups written by Sigmund von Birken, typically on commission, for bourgeois patrons and members of the city of Nuremberg's patrician class. The first subvolume contains the texts; the second subvolume the philological apparatus and commentaries. The book reveals the activity of a "literary service provider," and will be of interest to historians, theologians, and scholars of cultural and literary studies.

Sample

Robert B. Stinnett

"This great question of Pearl Harbor - what did we know and when did we know It? - has been argued for years. At first, a panel created by FDR concluded that we had no advance warning and should blame only the local commanders for lack of preparedness. More recently, historians such as John Toland and Edward Beach have concluded that some intelligence was intercepted. Finally, just months ago, the Senate voted to exonerate Hawaii commanders Admiral Kimmel and Lieutenant General Short, after the Pentagon officially declared that blame should be "broadly shared." But no investigator has ever been able to prove that foreknowledge of the attack existed at the highest levels."--BOOK JACKET. "Until now, After decades of Freedom of Information Act requests, Robert B. Stinnett has gathered the long-hidden evidence that shatters every shibboleth of Pearl Harbor. It shows that not only was the attack expected. It was deliberately provoked through an eight-step program devised by the Navy."--BOOK JACKET.