Shenandoah 1862 [[electronic resource] ] : Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign / / Peter Cozzens

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458290703321
• Autore: Cozzens Peter <1957->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2008
• ISBN: 1-4696-0523-6; 0-8078-9847-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (640 p.)
• Collana: Civil War America
• Disciplina: 973.7/32
• Soggetti: Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1862; Electronic books.
• 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. [583]-612) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 This War Is a Farce; 2 Daughter of the Stars; 3 They Ain't Rigged Out Like Uncle Sam's Men; 4 The Dam[n] Trip; 5 Our True Policy Is to Attack; 6 Is Not War a Game of Risks?; 7 Be Careful Not to Be Caught; 8 Dangers Close Us Round on Every Side; 9 We Are Very Hard Pressed Now; 10 Keep That Army in the Valley; 11 We Are in for It; 12 It Seems Very Much Like Murder; 13 General Jackson Was Completely Taken In; 14 Vacillation Is Our Name; 15 Now We'll Have War in Earnest; 16 A Country to Fight For; 17 God Blessed Our Arms with Victory; 18 On Your Course May Depend the Fate of Richmond 19 Go It, Boys! Maryland Whip Maryland!; 20 We Must Cut Our Way Through!; 21 This Is a Crushing Blow; 22 Attack at Daylight; 23 A Question of Legs; 24 I Was Never So Relieved in My Life; 25 Save the Bridge at Port Republic; 26 The Preservation of Our Army Depended on Us; 27 I Have Lost Confidence in Frémont; 28 All Has Gone Wrong Today; 29 The Game Cock of the Valley; Appendix: The Opposing Forces in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In the spring of 1862, Federal troops under the command of General George B. McClellan launched what was to be a coordinated, two-pronged attack on Richmond in the hope of taking the Confederate capital and bringing a quick end to the Civil War. The Confederate high command tasked Stonewall Jackson with diverting critical Union ; resources from this drive, a mission Jackson fulfilled by repeatedly defeating much larger enemy forces. His victories elevated him to near iconic status in both the North and the South and signaled a long war ahead. One of the most intriguing and storied episodes

Crisis in Sociology : the Need for Darwin / / Joseph Lopreato

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910972564003321
• Autore: Lopreato Joseph
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Taylor and Francis, , 2017
• ISBN: 1-351-32019-X; 1-351-32020-3; 1-351-32018-1
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (278 pages)
• Altri autori (Persone): CrippenTimothy
• Disciplina: 301/.07/2
• Soggetti: Sociology - Research; Social Darwinism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Part, 1 From Early Promise to Deepening Crisis / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- chapter 1 The Early Promise / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- chapter 2 The Deepening Crisis / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- chapter 3 Why the Crisis: A Sketch / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- part, 2 Elements of Evolutionary Theory / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- chapter 4 Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- chapter 5 Elements of Evolutionary Behavioral Science / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- part, 3 Select Adaptations and Applications / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- chapter 6 Fundamentals of Sex Differences / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- chapter 7 An Uneasy Alliance / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- chapter 8 Fundamentals of Social Stratification / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- chapter 9 The Clannish Brain / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Crisis in Sociology presents a compelling portrait of sociology's current ; troubles and proposes a controversial remedy. In the authors' view, sociology's crisis has deep roots, traceable to the over-ambitious sweep of the discipline's founders. Generations of sociologists have failed to focus effectively on the tasks necessary to build a social science. The authors see sociology's most disabling flaw in the failure to discover even a single general law or principle. This makes it impossible to systematically organize empirical observations, guide inquiry by suggesting falsifiable hypotheses, or form the core of a genuinely cumulative body of knowledge. Absent such a theoretical tool, sociology can aspire to little more than an amorphous mass of hunches and disconnected facts. The condition engenders confusion and unproductive debate. It invites fragmentation and predation by applied social disciplines, such as business administration, criminal justice, social work, and urban studies. Even more dangerous are incursions by prestigious social sciences and by branches of evolutionary biology that constitute the frontier of the current revolution in behavioral science. Lopreato and Crippen argue that unless sociology takes into account central developments in evolutionary science, it will not survive as an academic discipline. Crisis in Sociology argues that participation in the "new social science," exemplified by thriving new fields such as evolutionary psychology, will help to build a vigorous, scientific sociology. The authors analyze research on such subjects as sex roles, social stratification, and ethnic conflict, showing how otherwise disconnected features of the sociological landscape can in fact contribute to a theoretically coherent and cumulative body of knowledge."--Provided by publisher.