The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm [[electronic resource] ] : The Life and Writings of a Pan-Africanist Pioneer, 1799-1851 / / Winston James |
Autore | James Winston |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
Disciplina | 966.62/02092 |
Altri autori (Persone) | RusswurmJohn Brown <1799-1851.> |
Soggetto topico |
African Americans - Colonization - Liberia - History - 19th century
Pan-Africanism - History - 19th century African American intellectuals |
Soggetto non controllato |
1799-1851
Africa African American Americans Americas Bowdoin Brown College Despite Freedoms John Journal Liberia Maines Maryland Pan-African Pan-Africanist Russwurm Russwurms States United abolitionist accomplishments almost and annals before black co-founder colonizationist completely dilemma edited editor educator emigration emigrationist experienced eye fight first firsts following from government governor graduate internally kind life missing movement newspaper official operated ordeal owned perennial pioneering played public resolved role section stay struggled whether with |
ISBN |
0-8147-4290-4
0-8147-4314-5 0-8147-4372-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; A Note on Quotations; PART I: John Brown Russwurm; Prologue: The Man Out of Place; 1 From Boy to Man; 2 Freedom's Journal: Pleading Our Own Cause; 3 Quitting America and Its Cost; 4 ""We Have Found a Haven"": In the Land of His Fathers; 5 Governor Russwurm: The Cape Palmas Years; Epilogue: Russwurm in His Rightful Place; PART II: Selected Writings of John Brown Russwurm; Editorial Note; 1 Early Writings; The Condition and Prospects of Hayti; 2 Writings from Freedom's Journal; Part A. Uplift, Abolitionism, and Opposition to Colonization
Part B. Our Views Are Materially Altered: Looking toward Liberia3 Writings from Liberia; Part A. First Impressions: Two Early Letters from Liberia; Part B. Writings from the Liberia Herald; Part C. Letters Home from Afar to a Brother; Part D. Governor Russwurm: Departing from the Old and Beaten Paths; Part E. Sometimes We Despond a Little: Some Candid and Private; Part F. Home from Home: A Visit to Maine and After; Part G. ""None in Your Employ Eat the Bread of Idleness in Africa"": A Governor's Dispatches; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785284903321 |
James Winston | ||
New York, : New York University Press, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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War and remembrance : recollecting and representing war / / edited by Renée Dickason [and three others] |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Montreal, Quebec : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (505 pages) |
Disciplina | 909 |
Collana | Human Dimensions in Foreign Policy, Military Studies, and Security Studies |
Soggetto topico |
Collective memory
Memorialization Memory - Social aspects War and society War in mass media |
Soggetto non controllato |
Collective
Individual Intimate Subjective civil colonial fights forgetting hegemony memory narrative official peoples histories |
ISBN |
0-2280-1267-8
0-2280-1268-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Renée Dickason, Delphine Letort, Michel Prum, Stéphanie Bélanger -- Part 1: Remembering War from Indigenous Perspectives -- 1: War Voices: Australian Aboriginal Political Revolt Post-First World War -- 2: War Memories and Indigenous Stereotypes: The Fabrication of the Maori Warrior -- 3: "This Day Is Not for You": The Commemorative Displacement of Black Wars in White Australia -- 4: Allies or Enemies? The Representation of Black Soldiers in Recent French, British, and Canadian Great War Fiction -- 5: Selective Remembering and Motivated Forgetting: The Primacy of National Identity in Australia's Differential Memorialization of Its Wars -- Part 2: Memories of Colonial Involvement and Civil Wars -- 6: The Gurkha with the Khukuri between His Teeth: First World War Postcards and Combat Representations of Nepalese and Indian Colonial Troops -- 7: The Humour of an Indian Soldier's Memories of the First World War in M.R. Anand's Across the Black Waters (1939) -- 8: Picturing Control: The Visual Representation of the Kenya Emergency -- 9: The Meaning of the American Civil War in Southern Memory -- 10: Between Nigeria and Biafra: Locating Ethnic Minorities in Narratives of the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-70 -- Part 3: Recollections of World Wars -- 11: Light and Not-So-Light Reflections in the Wipers Times' Trench Journal and in the Satirical Magazine Punch or The London Charivari (1939-45): What Narratives, What Recollections? -- 12: Writing the Blitz, Listening to the Nation: Personal Narratives of the Blitz and the Construction of a Collective Aural Identity in British Cinema of the Second World War -- 13: The Literature of Intervention: US Participation in the Second World War -- 14: Fighting Fascism? The Second World War in British Far-Right Memory.
15: The National World War II Museum, New Orleans: An Architectural Interpretation of War -- Part 4: Remembering and Forgetting War -- 16: War on Memorialization: Constructive and Destructive Holocaust Remembrance on American Sitcoms, 1990-2000s -- 17: Of Wars, Scars, and Celluloid Memory: Representations of War in Sri Lankan Cinema (2000-10) -- 18: The Spanish-American War on Film: An International Approach -- 19: Wings (William Wellman, 1927) and Broken Lullaby (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932): The Psychological Drama of Memory and the Modern Pacifist Narrative -- 20: Peacekeeping Forces and Their Filmic Representations: The Case of Peter Kosminsky's Warriors (1999) and The Promise (2011) -- Part 5: Intimate Memories of War -- 21: Requiem for a Tommy: Impersonality and Subjectivity in Stuart Cooper's Overlord (1975) -- 22: "Our Visit to Waterloo": Representing the Battlefield in the Memoirs of Charlotte Eaton and Elizabeth Butler -- 23: Historically Estranged Generations: Memorials and the Relevance Effect in Nigel Farndale's The Blasphemer and Tatiana de Rosnay's Sarah's Key -- 24: An "Abominable Epoch": An Australian Woman's Perception of Occupied France -- 25: Robert Briffault's War Letters: A Divided Self under Fire -- Contributors -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795873403321 |
Montreal, Quebec : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , [2022] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
War and remembrance : recollecting and representing war / / edited by Renée Dickason [and three others] |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Montreal, Quebec : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (505 pages) |
Disciplina | 909 |
Collana | Human Dimensions in Foreign Policy, Military Studies, and Security Studies |
Soggetto topico |
Collective memory
Memorialization Memory - Social aspects War and society War in mass media |
Soggetto non controllato |
Collective
Individual Intimate Subjective civil colonial fights forgetting hegemony memory narrative official peoples histories |
ISBN |
0-2280-1267-8
0-2280-1268-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Renée Dickason, Delphine Letort, Michel Prum, Stéphanie Bélanger -- Part 1: Remembering War from Indigenous Perspectives -- 1: War Voices: Australian Aboriginal Political Revolt Post-First World War -- 2: War Memories and Indigenous Stereotypes: The Fabrication of the Maori Warrior -- 3: "This Day Is Not for You": The Commemorative Displacement of Black Wars in White Australia -- 4: Allies or Enemies? The Representation of Black Soldiers in Recent French, British, and Canadian Great War Fiction -- 5: Selective Remembering and Motivated Forgetting: The Primacy of National Identity in Australia's Differential Memorialization of Its Wars -- Part 2: Memories of Colonial Involvement and Civil Wars -- 6: The Gurkha with the Khukuri between His Teeth: First World War Postcards and Combat Representations of Nepalese and Indian Colonial Troops -- 7: The Humour of an Indian Soldier's Memories of the First World War in M.R. Anand's Across the Black Waters (1939) -- 8: Picturing Control: The Visual Representation of the Kenya Emergency -- 9: The Meaning of the American Civil War in Southern Memory -- 10: Between Nigeria and Biafra: Locating Ethnic Minorities in Narratives of the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-70 -- Part 3: Recollections of World Wars -- 11: Light and Not-So-Light Reflections in the Wipers Times' Trench Journal and in the Satirical Magazine Punch or The London Charivari (1939-45): What Narratives, What Recollections? -- 12: Writing the Blitz, Listening to the Nation: Personal Narratives of the Blitz and the Construction of a Collective Aural Identity in British Cinema of the Second World War -- 13: The Literature of Intervention: US Participation in the Second World War -- 14: Fighting Fascism? The Second World War in British Far-Right Memory.
15: The National World War II Museum, New Orleans: An Architectural Interpretation of War -- Part 4: Remembering and Forgetting War -- 16: War on Memorialization: Constructive and Destructive Holocaust Remembrance on American Sitcoms, 1990-2000s -- 17: Of Wars, Scars, and Celluloid Memory: Representations of War in Sri Lankan Cinema (2000-10) -- 18: The Spanish-American War on Film: An International Approach -- 19: Wings (William Wellman, 1927) and Broken Lullaby (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932): The Psychological Drama of Memory and the Modern Pacifist Narrative -- 20: Peacekeeping Forces and Their Filmic Representations: The Case of Peter Kosminsky's Warriors (1999) and The Promise (2011) -- Part 5: Intimate Memories of War -- 21: Requiem for a Tommy: Impersonality and Subjectivity in Stuart Cooper's Overlord (1975) -- 22: "Our Visit to Waterloo": Representing the Battlefield in the Memoirs of Charlotte Eaton and Elizabeth Butler -- 23: Historically Estranged Generations: Memorials and the Relevance Effect in Nigel Farndale's The Blasphemer and Tatiana de Rosnay's Sarah's Key -- 24: An "Abominable Epoch": An Australian Woman's Perception of Occupied France -- 25: Robert Briffault's War Letters: A Divided Self under Fire -- Contributors -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820221203321 |
Montreal, Quebec : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , [2022] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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