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UNINA9910463740803321 |
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McWilliams Tennant S. <1943-> |
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The chaplain's conflict [[electronic resource] ] : good and evil in a war hospital, 1943-1945 / / Tennant McWilliams |
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College Station, Tex., : Texas A&M University Press, 2012 |
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1-280-77239-5 |
9786613683168 |
1-60344-689-3 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (152 p.) |
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Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series |
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World War, 1939-1945 - Chaplains - United States |
Military chaplains - United States |
Military chaplains - Presbyterian Church |
World War, 1939-1945 |
World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Western Front |
World War, 1939-1945 - Regimental histories - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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The author based the book on Rev. Kennedy's letters, war diaries, and post-war magazine articles, as well as a personal yearlong trip retracing Kennedy's war locales, including conducting interviews with local citizens about their war remembrances. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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pt. 1. Finding the war -- pt. 2. France -- pt. 3. Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany. |
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As chaplain for the US Army's 102nd Evacuation Hospital in the European Theater, Renwick C. Kennedy--""Ren"" to those who knew him--witnessed great courage, extreme talent, and many lives snatched from the precipice of death, all under the most trying conditions. He also observed drug and alcohol abuse, prejudice, narrow-mindedness, and chronic depression. What he saw, he chronicled in his journal, and what he wrote, he processed with an intellectual and ethical rigor born of his remarkably sophisticated worldview and his deeply held Christian faith. With Kennedy's war diaries an |
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UNISA996213123703316 |
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Autore |
Finkel Alvin <1949-> |
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Titolo |
The West and beyond : new perspectives on an imagined region / / Alvin Finkel, Sarah Carter, Peter Fortna |
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Athabasca University Press, 2010 |
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Edmonton, Alberta : , : AU Press, , 2010 |
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©2010 |
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1-282-85203-5 |
9786612852039 |
1-897425-81-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (435 pages) : illustrations |
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The West Unbound : Social and Cultural Studies, , 1915-819X |
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Working class - Canada, Western - History |
Marginality, Social - Canada, Western - History |
Canada, Western History Congresses |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Based on papers presented at the conference: The West and Beyond : Historians Past, Present and Future, held at the University of Alberta, 19-21 June, 2008. |
a Issued as part of the Canadian electronic library publishers collection. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One: Frameworks for Western Canadian History -- 1 Critical History in Western Canada 1900-2000 -- 2 Vernacular Currents in Western Canadian: Historiography: The Passion and Prose of: Katherine Hughes, F.G. Roe, and Roy Ito -- 3 Cree Intellectual Traditions in History -- Part Two: The Aboriginal West -- 4 Visualizing Space, Race, and History in the North:: Photographic Narratives of the Athabasca-Mackenzie: River Basin -- 5 The Kaleidoscope of Madness: Perceptions of Insanity: in British Columbia Aboriginal Populations, 1872-1950 -- 6 Space, Temporality, History: Encountering Hauntings: in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside -- 7 The Expectations of a Queen: Identity and Race Politics: in the Calgary Stampede -- Part Three: The Workers' West -- 8 Capitalist Development, Forms of Labour,: and Class Formation in Prairie Canada |
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-- 9 Two Wests, One-and-a-Half Paradigms,: and, Perhaps, Beyond -- 10 Disease as Embodied Praxis: Epidemics, Public Health,: and Working-Class Resistance in Winnipeg, 1906-19 -- 11 Winnipeg's Moment: The Winnipeg Postal Strike of 1919 -- Part Four: Viewing the West from the Margins -- 12 "Our Negro Citizens": An Example of Everyday: Citizenship Practices -- 13 A Queer-Eye View of the Prairies:: Reorienting Western Canadian Histories -- 14 Human Rights Law and Sexual Discrimination: in British Columbia, 1953-84 -- Part Five: Cultural Portrayals of the West -- 15 W.L. Morton, Margaret Laurence,: and the Writing of Manitoba -- 16 The Banff Photographic Exchange: Albums, Youth,: Skiing, and Memory Making in the 1920s -- 17 Eric Harvie: Without and Within: Robert Kroetsch's Alibi -- 18 "It's a Landmark in the Community":: The Conservation of Historic Places in Saskatchewan,: 1911-2009 -- Contributors -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The West and Beyond explores the state of Western Canadian history, showcasing the research interests of a new generation of scholars while charting new directions for the future and stimulating further interrogation of our past. This dynamic collection encourages dialogue among generations of historians of the West, and among practitioners of diverse approaches to the past. It also reflects a broad range of disciplinary and professional boundaries, offering new ways to understand the West. |
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