1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961021603321

Autore

Ash Stephen V

Titolo

The Black experience in the Civil War South / / Stephen V. Ash

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Barbara, Calif., : Prager, c2010

ISBN

9786612486234

9781282486232

1282486233

9780313042041

0313042047

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (156 p.)

Collana

Reflections on the Civil War era

Disciplina

973.70896

Soggetti

African Americans - Southern States - History - 19th century

Enslaved persons - Southern States - History - 19th century

Slavery - Southern States - History - 19th century

Enslaved persons - Emancipation - Southern States

Plantation life - Southern States - History - 19th century

Southern States Social conditions 19th century

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

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Freedom Delayed; Chapter Two: Life and Labor on the Land; Chapter Three: Beyond the Plantation; Chapter Four: Gaining Freedom; Chapter Five: Experiencing Freedom; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliographical Essay; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Black Experience in the Civil War South is the first comprehensive study of the Southern black wartime experience to appear in a generation. Incorporating the most recent scholarship, this thematically organized book does justice to the richness of its subject, looking at the lives of blacks in the Confederate states and the nonseceding Southern states; at blacks on farms and plantations and in towns and cities; at blacks employed in industry and the military; and at black men, women, and children. ||Drawing on memoirs, autobiographies, and other original source materials, the author detai



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910957461503321

Titolo

The contradictions of Israeli citizenship : land, religion and state / / edited by Guy Ben-Porat and Bryan S. Turner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-10321-4

9786613103215

1-136-72738-8

0-203-81718-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics ; ; 36

Altri autori (Persone)

Ben-PoratGuy

TurnerBryan S

Disciplina

323.6095694

Soggetti

Citizenship - Israel

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

Cover; The Contradictionsof Israeli Citizenship: Land, religion and state; copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Contributors; 1. Introduction: Contemporary dilemmas of Israeli citizenship; 2. Collective identities, public spheres, civil society and citizenship in the contemporary era: With some observations on the Israeli scene; 3. Military hierarchies and collective action; 4. Dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in the Israeli welfare state: State- building and political economy

5. Corporatism and multiculturalism as responses to ethnic claims and socio-economic inequality: The case of Shas6. Citizenship, identity, and ethnic mobilization in Israel: The Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow - between universalism and particularism; 7. Fundamentalist citizenships: The Haredi challenge; 8. NGOization of the Israeli feminist movement: Depoliticizing or redefining political spaces?; 9. Parading pridefully into the mainstream: Gay & lesbian immersion in the civil core; 10. Inward turns: Citizenship, solidarity and exclusion

11. Civic associations, empowerment and democratization: Arab civil society in Israel12. All by myself? The paradox of citizenship among the FSU immigrants in Israel; 13. The rise and fall of liberal nationalism;



Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides an integrated analysis of the complex nature of citizenship in Israel. Contributions from leading social and political theorists explore different aspects of citizenship through the demands and struggles of minority groups to provide a comprehensive picture of the dynamics of Israeli citizenship and the dilemmas that emerge at the collective and individual levels.Considering the many complex layers of membership in the state of Israel including gender, ethnicity and religion, the book identifies and explores processes of inclusion and exclusion that are general iss