1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788217503321

Autore

Pfanz Harry W (Harry Willcox), <1921->

Titolo

Gettysburg [[electronic resource] ] : the second day / / Harry W. Pfanz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c1987

ISBN

0-8078-6973-2

1-4696-0304-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (624 p.)

Collana

Civil War America

Disciplina

973.7/349

Soggetti

Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER ONE: From the Potomac to Pennsylvania; CHAPTER TWO: The Army of Northern Virginia, 1 July; CHAPTER THREE: The Army of the Potomac, 1 July; CHAPTER FOUR: Meade's Scattered Corps Assemble, 2 July; CHAPTER FIVE: The Third Corps, Morning, 2 July; CHAPTER SIX: Confederate Preparations, 2 July; CHAPTER SEVEN: Sickles Takes Up the Forward Line; CHAPTER EIGHT: Longstreet's Corps Opens the Attack; CHAPTER NINE: Devil's Den; CHAPTER TEN: Little Round Top; CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Opening Attacks in the Wheatfield

CHAPTER TWELVE: The Confederates Seize the WheatfieldCHAPTER THIRTEEN: McLaws Strikes the Peach Orchard; CHAPTER FOURTEEN: From the Peach Orchard to Cemetery Ridge; CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Anderson's Division Attacks; CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The Repulse; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

The second day's fighting at Gettysburg?the assault of the Army of Northern Virginia against the Army of the Potomac on 2 July 1863?was probably the critical engagement of that decisive battle and, therefore, among the most significant actions of the Civil War.  Harry Pfanz, a former historian at Gettysburg National Military Park, has written a definitive account of the second day's brutal combat.  He begins by introducing the men and units that were to do battle, analyzing the strategic intentions of Lee and Meade as commanders of the opposing



armies, and describing the concentration of force

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910829083403321

Autore

Furedi Frank <1947->

Titolo

Culture of fear revisited : risk-taking and the morality of low expectation / / Frank Furedi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2006

©2006

ISBN

9781441107060

1441107061

9781283202497

1283202492

9786613202499

Edizione

[Fourth edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 pages)

Disciplina

302/.12

Soggetti

Fear

Uncertainty

Risk

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 What is Distinct About the Way We Fear?; Chapter 2 The Explosion of Risks; Chapter 3 Why Do We Panic?; Chapter 4 The Culture of Abuse; Chapter 5 A World of Risky Strangers; Chapter 6 Who Can You Trust?; Chapter 7 The New Etiquette; Chapter 8 Conclusions - The Politics of Fear; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Fear has become an ever-expanding part of life in the West in the twenty-first century. We live in terror of disease, abuse, stranger danger, environmental devastation and terrorist onslaught. We are bombarded with reports of new concerns for our safety and that of our children, and urged to take greater precautions and seek more protection. But compared to the past, or to the developing world, people in contemporary Western societies have much less familiarity with pain, suffering, debilitating disease and death. We actually enjoy



an unprecedented level of personal safety. When confronted wit