World War I and America

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910163903203321
• Autore: Berg A. Scott
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Library of America, , 2017; ©2017
• ISBN: 1-59853-515-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1033 pages)
• Collana: Library of America ; ; v.289
• Altri autori (Persone): BergA. Scott
• Disciplina: 940.30973
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Guardian -- Guardian -- Contents -- Meuse-Argonne Defensive Map -- Western Front Map -- Introduction -- Death of an Archduke: Sarajevo, June 1914 -- The War Begins: Belgium, July-August 1914 -- "The Grand Smash Is Come": London, August 1914 -- Defending Germany: Massachusetts, August 1914 -- Britain Goes to War: London, August 1914 -- Washington, D.C., August 1914 -- The Fall of Brussels and Burning of Louvain: Belgium, August 1914 -- "Justice and Fair Play": Long Island, October 1914 -- "White Imperialism": New York, November 1914 -- "Hungry, Wet, Weary": Przemyśl and Budapest, October-November 1914 -- "A Vain Hatred": England, November 1914 -- "My Boy Belongs to Me": New York, January 1915 -- "The War-Vision": France, February-March 1915 -- "A Fifty-Mile Grave": Serbia, April 1915 -- "The Final Plunge": Off the Irish Coast, May 1915 -- Philadelphia, May 1915 -- "There Are Things Worse Than War": New York, May 1915 -- "The Sacred Freedom of the Seas": Washington, D.C., May 1915 -- Reports of Armenian Massacres: Istanbul, May 1915 -- "The Lie Unveiled": New York, June 1915 -- "The Rights of Humanity": Washington, D.C., June 1915 -- With the Russian Army: Galicia, June 1915 -- Ypres and Dunkirk: Flanders, June 1915 -- Changing Nationality: London, June 1915 -- "To Destroy the Armenian Race": Eastern Anatolia, June-July 1915 -- "A Campaign of Race Extermination": Istanbul, July 1915 -- An Appeal for Peace: New York, July 1915 -- A Response to Jane Addams: New York, July 1915 -- Second Battle of Champagne: France, September-October 1915 -- ; Battle of Loos: France, October 1915 -- Assessing The Ottoman Leadership: Istanbul, November 1915 -- "A More Ignoble Sentiment": Long Island, November 1915 -- "The War Anesthesis": New York, December 1915 -- The Ford Peace Ship: Scotland, December 1915.; "Some Scarred Slope": France, Winter 1916 -- Gas Gangrene: Flanders, Spring 1916 -- Washington, D.C., April 1916 -- "Baptism of Fire": France, May 1916 -- Flying over Verdun: France, June 1916 -- Broken and Mended: France, Summer 1916 -- A German Ace: France, October 1916 -- Wilson's Failures: New York, November 1916 -- A "Monument to Zero": Massachusetts, January 1917 -- "To Go Again": Winter 1917 -- Washington, D.C., January 1917 -- U-Boat Warfare: Germany, February 1917 -- Washington, D.C., January-February 1917 -- The Zimmermann Telegram: Washington, D.C., February 1917 -- The Lafayette Escadrille: France, March 1917 -- Washington, D.C., April 1917 -- "Let Europe Solve Her Problems": Washington, D.C., April 1917 -- "The Yanks Are Coming": New York, April 1917 -- Opposing Capitalist War: Missouri, April 1917 -- "A Union of Liberal Peoples": Philadelphia, April 1917 -- Feeding Belgium: April 1917 -- Bombers Over London: England, June 1917 -- Washington, D.C., June 1917 -- "The Riveting of The War-Mind": New York, June 1917 -- The East St. Louis Race Riot: Illinois, July 1917 -- "The Social Value of Heresy": New York, August 1917 -- "Moral Disintegration": New York, August 1917 -- "The War is Utter Damn Nonsense": France, August 1917 -- Black Soldiers Rebel: Texas, August 1917 -- Defending Free Speech in America: France, September 1917 -- Black Leaders for Black Troops: New York, November 1917 -- Every Woman's Struggle: New York, November 1917 -- This Nameless Man: France, Autumn 1917 -- Shooting Down a "Hun": France, December 1917 -- Wartime Work for Women: New York, December 1917 -- Washington, D.C., January 1918 -- "Stabbing Cries of Pain": France, March 1918 -- The "Will to Win": France, April 1918 -- "How Can I Be Glad?": France, May 1918 -- Battle of Belleau Wood: France, June 1918 -- Treating American Wounded: France, June 1918.; Rights and Duties: New York, June 1918 -- "The Crisis of the World": New York, July 1918 -- Refusing Black Nurses: New York, July 1918 -- Wounded at the Front: Italy, July 1918 -- Washington, D.C., July 1918 -- "Ain't It Grand?": France, July 1918 -- "Real Nobility": France, July 1918 -- Battle of Fismette: France, August 1918 -- "Hurting Like 227 Little Devils": Italy, August 1918 -- The St. Mihiel Offensive: France, September 1918 -- "Gold Is God": Ohio, September 1918 -- "Living in the War": Nebraska, Summer 1918 -- "The Hellish Thing": France, September 1918 -- Battle of the Meuse-Argonne: France, September 1918 -- The "Harlem Hellfighters" Attack: France, September 1918 -- "The Dreaded Influenza": Crossing the Atlantic, September-October 1918 -- Influenza on a Troopship: The Atlantic, September-October 1918 -- Washington, D.C., September 1918 -- "I Am Not Dead": France, October 1918 -- Surrounded in the Argonne: France, October 1918 -- Washington, D.C., October 1918 -- Setting Armistice Terms: France, October 1918 -- Waiting for the Armistice: France, November 1918 -- "The Silence Is Oppressive": France, November 1918 -- Wilson Arrives in Paris: France, December 1918 -- "After They've Seen Paree": New York, Winter 1919 -- "A Clear and Present Danger": Washington, D.C., March 1919 -- Wilson at the Peace Conference: France, March-April 1919 -- Returning Home: Germany and the Atlantic, March-April 1919 -- "Snobbishness and Caste": The Atlantic, April 1919 -- Old Trucks and New Cars: Germany, April 1919 -- Returning to "A Shameful Land": New York, May 1919 -- Confronting Injustice: Los Angeles, May 1919 -- "The Peace Feast": May 1919 -- France, May ; 1919 -- "The Big Men of the World": New York, July 1919 -- American Propaganda: 1917-1919 -- Washington, D.C., July 1919 -- Naming the War: Washington, D.C., July 1919.; "This Murky Covenant": Washington, D.C., August 1919 -- "The New Negro Has Arrived": New York, September 1919 -- Colorado, September 1919 -- "Free Trade in Ideas": Washington, D.C., November 1919 -- Deporting Radicals: New York, December 1919 -- "Walked Eye-Deep in Hell": England, Spring 1920 -- Measuring Psychic Wounds: 1919-1920 -- Recalling Wartime Deception: 1917-1920 -- A Dissenting Professor: Ohio and New York, 1914-1921 -- Arlington, November 1921 -- CODA -- Ernest Hemingway: Soldier's Home -- E. E. Cummings: my sweet old etcetera -- John Dos Passos: The Body of an American -- Chronology -- Biographical Notes -- Note on the Texts -- Notes -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: For the centenary of America's entry into World War I, A. Scott Berg presents a landmark anthology of American writing from the cataclysmic conflict that set the course of the 20th century. Few Americans appreciate the significance and intensity of America's experience of World War I, the global cataclysm that transformed the modern world. Published to mark the centenary of the U.S. entry into the conflict, World War I: Told by the Americans Who Lived It brings together a wide range of writings by American participants and observers to tell a vivid and dramatic firsthand story from the outbreak of war in 1914 through the Armistice, the Paris Peace Conference, and the League of Nations debate. The eighty-eight men and women collected in the volume--soldiers, airmen, nurses, diplomats, statesmen, political activists, journalists--provide unique insights into how Americans of every stripe perceived the war, why they supported or opposed intervention, how they experienced the nightmarish reality of industrial warfare, and how the conflict changed American life. Richard Harding Davis witnesses the burning of Louvain; Edith Wharton tours the front in the Argonne and Flanders; John Reed reports from Serbia and Bukovina; Charles Lauriat describes the sinking of the Lusitania; Leslie Davis records the Armenian genocide; Jane Addams and Emma Goldman protest against militarism; Victor Chapman and Edmond Genet fly with the Lafayette Escadrille; Floyd Gibbons, Hervey Allen, and Edward Lukens experience the ferocity of combat in Belleau Wood, Fismette, and the Meuse-Argonne; and Ellen La Motte and Mary Borden unflinchingly examine the human wreckage brought into military hospitals. W.E.B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Fauset, and Claude McKay protest the racist treatment of black soldiers and the violence directed at African Americans on the home; front; Carrie Chapman Catt connects the war with the fight for women suffrage; Willa Cather explores the impact of the war on rural Nebraska; Henry May recounts a deadly influenza outbreak onboard a troop transport; Oliver Wendell Holmes weighs the limits of free speech in wartime; Woodrow Wilson envisions a world without war. A coda presents three iconic literary works by Ernest Hemingway, E. E. Cummings, and John Dos Passos.With an introduction and headnotes by A. Scott Berg, brief biographies of the writers, and endpaper maps.

The Great War : From Memory to History / / Kellen Kurschinski, Steve Marti, Alicia Robinet, Matt Symes, Jonathan F. Vance, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910155160403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Waterloo, Ontario : , : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, , 2015; Ottawa, Ontario : , : Canadian Electronic Library, , 2015
• ISBN: 1-77112-052-5; 1-77112-051-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (440 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.3
• Soggetti: World War, 1914-1918 - Canada; World War, 1914-1918 - Influence; World War, 1914-1918 - Monuments - Canada; World War, 1914-1918 - Art and the war; War and society - Canada; Memory - Social aspects - Canada; Collective memory - Canada; World War, 1914-1918 - Social aspects - Canada; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Scholarly essays that arose from The Great War: From Memory to History Conference held at the University of Western Ontario, November 10-12, 2011.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: section 1. Memory and making narratives -- section 2. Rediscovering and rewriting memory -- section 3. Seeing and feeling memory.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Great War: From Memory to History offers a new look at the multiple ways the Great War has been remembered and commemorated through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Drawing on contributions from history, cultural studies, film, and literary studies this collection offers fresh perspectives on the Great War and its legacy at the local, national, and international levels. More importantly, it showcases exciting new research on the experiences and memories of “forgotten” participants who have often been ignored in dominant ; narratives or national histories. Contributors to this international study highlight the transnational character of memory-making in the Great War’s aftermath. No single memory of the war has prevailed, but many symbols, rituals, and expressions of memory connect seemingly disparate communities and wartime experiences. With groundbreaking new research on the role of Aboriginal peoples, ethnic minorities, women, artists, historians, and writers in shaping these expressions of memory, this book will be of great interest to readers from a variety of national and academic backgrounds.

Languages in America : a pluralist view / / Susan J. Dicker

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910824197503321
• Autore: Dicker Susan J
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Clevedon ; ; Buffalo, : Multilingual Matters, c2003
• ISBN: 1-280-82822-6; 9786610828227; 1-85359-653-1
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (379 p.)
• Collana: Bilingual education and bilingualism ; ; 42
• Disciplina: 404/.2/0973
• Soggetti: Multilingualism - United States; Cultural pluralism - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-347) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Language and identity -- The melting-pot mythology -- Common misconceptions about language learning -- Languages in the schools -- The modern official-English movement -- Challenges to language restrictionism -- Lessons in multilingualism beyond the United States -- The possibilities of a pluralistic, multilingual America.
• Sommario/riassunto: The United States is and has always been an immigrant country. However, it has always demonstrated a marked ambivalence towards newcomers. In some circumstances, they are seen as welcomed contributors to a multifaceted society; in others they are viewed as interlopers usurping depleting resources which should be going to the ; country’s citizens. A major part of this ongoing debate centers on the languages which immigrants bring with them. For some, these new languages add to the country’s diversity; for others the new languages are seen as an inherent threat to English and the American way of life. Languages in America: A Pluralist View is a vigorous response to this perspective by a sociolinguist and professor, Susan J. Dicker. Drawing on knowledge from the fields of linguistics, history and sociology, Dicker presents a cogent argument for language diversity in the United States. She explores the role language plays in personal and public identity. She debunks the mythology of America as a melting pot. She tackles common misconceptions about second-language learning, reveals the nativist roots of the official-English movement, and describes how other countries nurture language pluralism. Finally, Dicker asks her readers to imagine America as an open, pluralistic society in which language diversity plays an important part.