A Brush with Passion: Mattia Preti (1613-1699) is the first major exhibition of his art held in the United States and one of three international venues recognized by the Preti Quadricentennial Committee in Italy, of which our own Dr John T Spike is a member. Taverna, the artist’s birthplace in Calabria, and Valletta, Malta, where Preti lived for forty years as painter to the Knights of Malta, will also host exhibitions with works from their respective countries. Mattia Preti is celebrated as the last and most enduring proponent of the passionate, contrasted style of the painter, Michelangelo da Caravaggio (1571-1610). In many ways, Preti’s life followed in Caravaggio’s footsteps, although with a happier ending. As a young man, Preti made his way up the Italian peninsula to study painting in Rome, arriving around 1630. He quickly fell under the spell of Caravaggio, similarly seeking emotional intensity and wrapping his canvases in pervasive darkness that evokes the impenetrable nights of those candle-lit times and the hidden depths of the human soul. Preti’s paintings underwent a significant development in the mid-1640s, when he immersed himself in studies of the Venetian Renaissances, especially Titian and Paolo Veronese, in search of more colors and a grander theatricality in his compositions. The exhibition A Brush with Passion: Mattia Preti (1613-1699) features a prime example of this new direction, the ‘Banquet of Herod’ in the Toledo Museum of Art, which is one of the artist’s masterpieces. Fiercely self-reliant and incessantly inventive, Preti followed Caravaggio’s restless path leading first to Naples and then beyond to Malta. His paintings on the vault and for most of the altars in the Church of St John in Valletta earned him a high title in the Sovereign Military Order of St John of Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta. His last four decades were dedicated to commissions for the Knights and the leading noble families of Europe. These paintings have found their way to the world’s museums and for which Preti’s anniversary is being commemorated.
As true love arrives in his life, a mature and committed Erik Sklar realizes how fearless he used to be in his Navy days, perhaps for the wrong reasons.
On Nov. 28, 1858, a ship called the Wanderer slipped silently into a coastal channel and unloaded a cargo of over 400 African slaves onto Jekyll Island, Georgia, fifty years after the African slave trade had been made illegal. It was the last ship ever to bring a cargo of African slaves to American soil. The Wanderer began life as a luxury racing yacht, but within a year was secretly converted into a slave ship, and--using the pennant of the New York Yacht Club as a diversion--sailed off to Africa. More than a slaving venture, her journey defied the federal government and hurried the nation's descent into civil war. The New York Times first reported the story as a hoax; as groups of Africans began to appear in the small towns surrounding Savannah, however, the story of the Wanderer began to leak out, igniting a fire of protest and debate that made headlines throughout the nation and across the Atlantic. As the story shifts from New York City to Charleston, to the Congo River, Jekyll Island and finally Savannah, the Wanderer's tale is played out in the slave markets of Africa, the offices of the New York Times, heated Southern courtrooms, The White House, and some of the most charming homes Southern royalty had to offer. In a gripping account of the high seas and the high life in New York and Savannah, Erik Calonius brings to light one of the most important and little remembered stories of the Civil War period.
Taking the revival of civic republicanism as his point of departure, the author examines the relationship between property, civic virtue, and democracy in post-socialist political thought, and outlines a theory of democratic stakeholding in which citizens have rights of inhabitation in their commonwealth.
Are you a student of Napoleon Hill's classic from 1937 Think and Grow Rich? Has your life or business benefited from the timeless truths of this global classic? Experience these foundational principles of success that carry on from generation to generation. Presenting: The 13 Steps to Riches by Habitude Warrior Volume 3 Auto Suggestion Based on the timeless truths of Napoleon Hill's classic Think and Grow Rich, the 13 steps come alive in this modern-day journey by each hand-selected author in this first-ever series: The 13 Steps to Riches by Habitude Warrior Special Edition Volume 3 Auto Suggestion In this professionally published limited author series the entire 13-set series is being made available globally by Beyond Publishing, in all formats. Available in bookstores, libraries, and online stores everywhere. Each volume features a Celebrity Author: Volume 1: Denis Waitley - DESIRE Volume 2: Sharon Lechter - FAITH Volume 3: Jim Cathcart - AUTO SUGGESTION Volume 4: Steve Sims - SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE Volume 5: Glenn Lundy - IMAGINATION Volume 6: Marie Diamond - ORGANIZED PLANNING Volume 7: Dan Clark - DECISION Volume 8: Alec Stern - PERSISTENCE Volume 9: Erik Swanson - MASTERMIND Volume 10: Loral Langemeier - TRANSMUTATION Volume 11: Doria Cordova - SUBCONSCIOUS MIND Volume 12: John Assaraf - THE BRAIN Volume 13: Kevin Harrington - SIXTH SENSE Authors include: Jim Cathcart Erik Swanson Jon Kovach Jr. Adam Platt, Amado Hernandez, Angelika Ullsperger, Anthony Criniti, Barry Bevier, Brian Schulman, Bryce McKinley, Candace Rose, David Rose, Collier Landry, Corey Poirier, Deb Scott, Dori Ray, Elaine Sugimura, Elizabeth Walker, Erin Ley, Fatima Hurd, Frankie Fegurgur, Freeman Witherspoon, Gina Bacalski, Griselda Beck, Jason Curtis, Jeff Levine, Lacey and Adam Platt, Louisa Jovanovich, Lynda Sunshine West, Maris Segal, Ken Ashby, Mel Mason, Miatta Hampton, Michael D. Butler, Michelle Cameron Coulter, Al Coulter, Michelle Mras, Mickey Stewart, Natalie Susi, Nita Patel, Olga Geidane, Paul Capozio, Paul Andrés, Robyn Scott, Shannon Whittington, Soraiya Vasanji, Stacey Ross Cohen, Teresa Cundiff, Vera Thomas and Yuri Choi. Grab all 13 Volumes to complete your library!
Are you a student of Napoleon Hill's classic from 1937 Think and Grow Rich? Has your life or business benefited from the timeless truths of this global classic? Experience these foundational principles of success that carry on from generation to generation. Presenting: The 13 Steps to Riches by Habitude Warrior Volume 2 FAITH Based on the timeless truths of Napoleon Hill's classic Think and Grow Rich, the 13 steps come alive in this modern-day journey by each hand-selected author in this first-ever series: The 13 Steps to Riches by Habitude Warrior Special Edition Volume 1 DESIRE In this professionally published limited author series the entire 13-set series is being made available globally by Beyond Publishing, in all formats. Available in bookstores, libraries, and online stores everywhere. Each volume features a Celebrity Author: Volume 1: Denis Waitley - DESIRE Volume 2: Sharon Lechter - FAITH Volume 3: Jim Cathcart - AUTO SUGGESTION Volume 4: Steve Sims - SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE Volume 5: Glenn Lundy - IMAGINATION Volume 6: Marie Diamond - ORGANIZED PLANNING Volume 7: Dan Clark - DECISION Volume 8: Alec Stern - PERSISTENCE Volume 9: Erik Swanson - MASTERMIND Volume 10: Loral Langemeier - TRANSMUTATION Volume 11: Doria Cordova - SUBCONSCIOUS MIND Volume 12: John Assaraf - THE BRAIN Volume 13: Kevin Harrington - SIXTH SENSE Authors include: Sharon Lechter Erik Swanson Jon Kovach Jr. Adam Platt, Amado Hernandez, Angelika Ullsperger, Anthony Criniti, Barry Bevier, Brian Schulman, Bryce McKinley, Candace Rose, David Rose, Collier Landry, Corey Poirier, Deb Scott, Dori Ray, Elaine Sugimura, Elizabeth Walker, Erin Ley, Fatima Hurd, Frankie Fegurgur, Freeman Witherspoon, Gina Bacalski, Griselda Beck, Jason Curtis, Jeff Levine, Lacey Platt, Louisa Jovanovich, Lynda West, Maris Segal, Ken Ashby, Mel Mason, Miatta Hampton, Michael D. Butler, Michelle Cameron Coulter, Al Coulter, Michelle Mras, Mickey Stewart, Natalie Susi, Nita Patel, Olga Geidane, Paul Capozio, Paul Andrés, Robyn Scott, Shannon Whittington, Soraiya Vasanji, Stacey Ross Cohen, Teresa Cundiff, Vera Thomas and Yuri Choi. Grab all 13 Volumes to complete your library!
Are you a student of Napoleon Hill's classic from 1937 Think and Grow Rich?Has your life or business benefited from the timeless truths of this global classic?Experience these foundational principles of success that carry on from generation to generation.Presenting: 13 Steps to Riches by Habitude Warrior Special Edition Volume 1 DESIREBased on the timeless truths of Napoleon Hill's classic Think and Grow Rich, the 13 steps come alive in this modern-day journey by each hand-selected author in this first-ever series:The 13 Steps to Riches by Habitude Warrior Special Edition Volume 1 DESIREIn this professionally published limited author series the entire 13-set series is being made available globally by Beyond Publishing, in all formats. Available in bookstores, libraries, and online stores everywhere.Each volume features a Celebrity Author:Volume 1: Denis Waitley - DESIREVolume 2: Sharon Lechter - FAITHVolume 3: Jim Cathcart - AUTO SUGGESTIONVolume 4: Steve Sims - SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGEVolume 5: Glenn Lundy - IMAGINATIONVolume 6: Marie Diamond - ORGANIZED PLANNINGVolume 7: Dan Clark - DECISIONVolume 8: Alec Stern - PERSISTENCEVolume 9 Erik Swanson - MASTERMINDVolume 10 Loral Langemeier - TRANSMUTATIONVolume 11 Doria Cordova - SUBCONSCIOUS MINDVolume 12: John Assaraf - THE BRAINVolume 13 Kevin Harrington - SIXTH SENSEIn this signature volume, each of the contributing authors share their experience & journey of success in business and life overcoming obstacles & triumphs...Authors Denis Waitley, Erik Swanson, Jon Kovach Jr., Michael Butler, Adora Evans, Amado & Adriana Hernandez, Angelika Ullsperger, Anthony Criniti, Barry Bevier, Brian Schulman, Bryce McKinley, Candace & David Rose, Collier Landry, Corey Poirier, David Nicholson, Deb Scott, Dori Ray, Elaine Sugimura, Elizabeth Walker, Erin Ley, Fatima Hurd, Frankie Fegurgur, Freeman Witherspoon, Gina & Jay Bacalski, Griselda Beck, Jason Curtis, Jeff Levine, Lacey & Adam Platt, Louisa Jovanovich, Maris Segal & Ken Ashby, Mel Mason, Miatta Hampton, Michelle Cameron & Allan Coulter, Michelle Mras, Mickey Stewart, Natalie Susi, Nita Patel, Olga Geidane, Paul Capozio, Paul Andrés, Robyn Scott, Shannon Whittington, Soraiya Vasanji, Theresa Cundiff, Vera Thomas, and Yuri Choi.
Talking Trash, Trading Studs, and Drafting Sleepers -- an Insider's Guide to the World's Greatest Obsession U.S. businesses lose $200 million in productivity each football season because employees are managing their fantasy squads instead of working. In Why Fantasy Football Matters (And Our Lives Do Not), two grizzled veterans revel in the addiction that is fantasy football. From pre-draft hijinx to post-draft trash talk, from tumultuous trades to the perils of free agency, it celebrates the eccentric personalities, absurd rituals, and hilarious superstitions of one of the most fanatical fantasy leagues on earth. With humor, insight, and a dash of advice, Why Fantasy Football Matters celebrates the thirty-two million Americans who prefer managing their fantasy squads to relaxing with loved ones. And it gives girlfriends, coworkers, and sports purists all the proof they need to accept that this is an obsession that really matters.
Ritual scholars note that rituals have powerful psychological, social and even biological effects, but these findings have not yet been integrated into the practice of psychotherapy and psychiatry. In Healing Symbols in Psychotherapy Erik D. Goodwyn attempts to rectify this by reviewing the most pertinent work done in the area of ritual study and applying it to the practice of psychotherapy and psychiatry, providing a new framework with which to approach therapy. The book combines ritual study with depth psychology, placebo study, biogenetic structuralism and cognitive anthropology to create a model of interdisciplinary psychology. Goodwyn uses examples of rituals from history, folklore and cross-cultural study and uncovers the universal themes embedded within them as well as their psychological functions. As ritual scholars show time and again how Western culture and medicine is ‘ritually impoverished’ the application of ritual themes to therapy yields many new avenues for healing. The interdisciplinary model used here suggests new ways to approach problems with basic identity, complicated grief, anxiety, depression meaninglessness and a host of other problems encountered in clinical work. The interdisciplinary approach of this accessibly-written book will appeal to psychotherapists, psychiatrists and Jungian analysts as well as those in training and readers with an interest in the science behind ritual.
This book shows how common dream, myth and religious experiences can be meaningful and purposeful without discarding scientific rigor It provides a detailed exploration of the subject of Gods, spirits, and other characters experienced in dreams and altered states The book uses examples and parallels from folklore, mythology and clinical practice to demonstrate the points made.
New public management is a topical phrase to describe how management techniques from the private sector are now being applied to public services. This book provides a completely up-to-date overview of the main theoretical models of public sector management, and examines the key changes that have occurred as more and more public services are contracted out to private organisations, as the public sector itself grapples with 'internal markets'. Drawing on economics, organisational theory and poliltics, Jan-Erik Lane presents new public management from an analytical perspective. This book uses game theory and empirical studies in order to assess the pros and cons of new public management.
In 1894 Wisconsin game wardens Horace Martin and Josiah Hicks were dispatched to arrest Joe White, an Ojibwe ogimaa (chief), for hunting deer out of season and off-reservation. Martin and Hicks found White and made an effort to arrest him. When White showed reluctance to go with the wardens, they started beating him; he attempted to flee, and the wardens shot him in the back, fatally wounding him. Both Martin and Hicks were charged with manslaughter in local county court, and they were tried by an all-white jury. A gripping historical study, The Murder of Joe White contextualizes this event within decades of struggle of White’s community at Rice Lake to resist removal to the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation, created in 1854 at the Treaty of La Pointe. While many studies portray American colonialism as defined by federal policy, The Murder of Joe White seeks a much broader understanding of colonialism, including the complex role of state and local governments as well as corporations. All of these facets of American colonialism shaped the events that led to the death of Joe White and the struggle of the Ojibwe to resist removal to the reservation.
Unlike most other books in the field, which slant toward either policyholder or insurer counsel, Stempel and Knutsen on Insurance Coverage takes an even-handed nonexcess and umbrella aking it useful to attorneys from all sides. Moreover, it's designed for practitioners from all professional backgrounds and insurance experience. Written in clear, jargon-free language, it covers everything from the basic insurance concepts, principles, and structure of insurance policies to today's most complex issues and disputes. The authors, Jeffrey W. Stempel and Erik S. Knutsen, are well-known authorities on the law of insurance coverage, and this new Fourth Edition of Stempel and Knutsen on Insurance Coverage is completely up-to-date on every aspect of its subject. This one-stop resource provides both a sound historical, theoretical and doctrinal grounding in insurance, as well being practice-oriented and packed with practical guidance. After providing information about insurance policies and issues in general, it focuses on specific types of policies and coverage such as property coverage, liability coverage, automobile coverage, excess and umbrella coverage, and reinsurance, plus such vital areas as employment, defective construction, and terrorism claims...Dandamp;O liability...ERISA...bad faith litigation...and much more. Plus, you'll find extensive examination of the commercial general liability (CGL) policy, the type of insurance involved in most major coverage cases. Among the most important CGL issues covered in Stempel and Knutsen on Insurance Coverage are: Pollution-related coverage Trigger of coverage Apportionment of insurer and policyholder responsibility Business risk exclusions Coverage under the andquot;personal injuryandquot; section of the CGL Coverage under andquot;advertising injuryandquot; Nowhere else will you find so much valuable current information, in-depth analysis, sharp insight, authoritative commentary, significant case law, and practical guidance on this critically important area. With its clear explanations and thorough, even-handed coverage, Stempel and Knutsen on Insurance Coverage is unlike any other resource in its field.
This study conceives the literary and cinematic category of 'noir' as a way of understanding the defining conflict between authenticity and consumer culture in post-World War II America. It analyses works of fiction and film in order to argue that both contribute to a 'noir tradition' that is initiated around the end of World War II and continues to develop and evolve in the present.
Are games worthy of academic attention? Can they be used effectively in the classroom, in the research laboratory, as an innovative design tool, as a persuasive political weapon? Game Mods: Design Theory and Criticism aims to answer these and more questions. It features chapters by authors chosen from around the world, representing fields as diverse as architecture, ethnography, puppetry, cultural studies, music education, interaction design and industrial design. How can we design, play with and reflect on the contribution of game mods, related tools and techniques, to both game studies and to society as a whole?
Tells how radio and television became an integral part of American life, of how a toy became an industry and a force in politics, business, education, religion, and international affairs.
What are the real differences between the Democrats and the Republicans on major economic issues that influence the character and vitality of the American economy? This volume answers this question in a thorough, nonpartisan, and evenhanded fashion. Both the Democratic and Republican parties proclaim that they have the best interests of the nation and its people at heart. Both are also adamant that they have the best proposals and positions on economic policies, including taxation, spending priorities, wages, business regulation, and other influences on economic growth and household finances. This volume carefully examines the two parties' respective policies, providing a detailed yet readable and understandable look at how the parties agree, disagree, and find compromise on the broad range of problems and issues facing American society in the 21st century. Each entry includes an infographic that offers bulleted "at-a-glance" summaries of the two parties' positions on each issue today, an "Issue Overview" providing basic definitions and background for understanding the debate on each issue, and a main entry that explains prevailing party sentiments, the diversity of opinion within each party, and the shifts in party position on that issue over time. Selected entries also feature informative sidebars that supply additional content, such as primary documents that showcase the viewpoints of key political figures and institutions or biographical profiles of individuals who have helped shape their party's policies on the issue in question.
Following an epic American League Championship Series win over the California Angels and just one out from winning their first World Series in sixty-eight years, the 1986 Boston Red Sox lost Game Six to the New York Mets in unforgettable and devastating fashion. Then they lost Game Seven and the Series itself. Two Sides of Glory portrays the losing side of the story about one of baseball’s most riveting World Series match-ups. With the benefit of years of reflection from the men who made up the ’86 Sox, this will be the definitive book on this iconic yet most Shakespearian of Boston teams for years to come. After telling the Mets’ side of the story, Erik Sherman turns here to the Red Sox’s version, with recollections from players that are both insightful and surprisingly emotional. Bill Buckner, whose name became synonymous with a muffed grounder, speaks openly about the cruel aftermath. Pitcher Bruce Hurst broke down three times while being interviewed. Dwight Evans confesses in his interview that he had never before talked at length about the ’86 team. And Roger Clemens talks candidly not only about the ’86 squad but also accusations of alleged steroid abuse later in his career and the toll it has taken on his family. In each player’s retelling, there is the excitement of history never told and old mysteries answered. The story of the ’86 Red Sox is well known, but now, after thirty years, the players have opened up to Sherman like never before. It’s an in-depth, first-person account with the intriguing key players who made up this once-in-a-generation Boston team, and also a look at how the extremes of tantalizing victory and heart-wrenching failure shaped and influenced their lives—both on the field and off.
A fascinating insight into just how different our world could be if the human brain continues to evolve, allowing us to access higher levels of consciousness. New Brain, New World uses cutting edge brain research to show how the ongoing evolution of the human brain could bring about a shift in human consciousness, ultimately creating a better world. We all know that over millions of years the human brain has evolved in many significant ways - so why would we assume that this process is not still happening? Based on a lifetime of research into brain function, the science of consciousness, and brain wave training, this book looks at how our brains may yet evolve, and the exciting implications that these developments may have for human consciousness. The author maintains that the global crisis facing us is basically a crisis of consciousness, and it is the human ego with its destructive feelings and insatiable greed that stands in the way of a new and better world. He believes that the evolution of the human brain can make that world a reality. This book explores: the science of consciousness the evolution of the human brain - how it has developed over millions of years, and how there is a huge potential latent in the part of the brain called the frontal cortex expanding human consciousness - the effects on the brain of meditation, feeling release therapy, and the drinking of ayahuasca, the mind-expanding herbal tea kundalini: an evolutionary energy in man awareness as a driving force in consciousness development - how we can play our own parts in helping our brains to evolve and access higher levels of consciousness by using alpha brain wave training for body-awareness and 'grounding', and frontal gamma wave training for focus and presence the new human brain looking towards a new future - the exciting possibilities for positive change and increased peace, love and compassion in the world if the human brain evolves.
The Visionary Realism of German Economics forms a collection of Erik S. Reinert’s essays bringing the more realistic German economic tradition into focus as an alternative to Anglo-Saxon neoclassical mainstream economics. Together the essays form a holistic theory explaining why economic development—by its very nature—is a very uneven process. Herein lie the important policy implications of the volume.
Written as an introduction for beginning students, this book offers a thorough, yet lively, overview of human communication in all its aspects. Accessibly written and assuming no prior knowledge of the discipline Communication: An Introduction: offers a thorough, yet lively, examination of all aspects of human communication, including: a summary of its nature, form and function; a detailed analysis of all the levels of communication; a description and overview of the different traditions of communication studies; and a consideration of the future of communication - as a phenomenon and as a field of research.
During the iQSo's, in a frontier atmosphere of enterprise and sharp struggle, an American television system took shape. But even as it did so, itspioneers pushed beyond American borders and became programmers to scores of other nations. In its first decade United States television was already a world phenomenon. Since American radio had for some time had international ramifications, American images and sounds were radiatingfrom transmitter towers throughout the globe. They were called entertainment or news or education but were always more. They were a reflection of a growing United States involvement in the lives of other nationsan involvement of imperial scope. The role of broadcasters in this American expansion and in the era that produced it is the subject matter of The Image Empire, the last of three volumes comprising this study.
At the dawn of the twentieth century, a great confidence suffused America. Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms. The idea that a hurricane could damage the city of Galveston, Texas, where he was based, was to him preposterous, "an absurd delusion." It was 1900, a year when America felt bigger and stronger than ever before. Nothing in nature could hobble the gleaming city of Galveston, then a magical place that seemed destined to become the New York of the Gulf. That August, a strange, prolonged heat wave gripped the nation and killed scores of people in New York and Chicago. Odd things seemed to happen everywhere: A plague of crickets engulfed Waco. The Bering Glacier began to shrink. Rain fell on Galveston with greater intensity than anyone could remember. Far away, in Africa, immense thunderstorms blossomed over the city of Dakar, and great currents of wind converged. A wave of atmospheric turbulence slipped from the coast of western Africa. Most such waves faded quickly. This one did not. In Cuba, America's overconfidence was made all too obvious by the Weather Bureau's obsession with controlling hurricane forecasts, even though Cuba's indigenous weathermen had pioneered hurricane science. As the bureau's forecasters assured the nation that all was calm in the Caribbean, Cuba's own weathermen fretted about ominous signs in the sky. A curious stillness gripped Antigua. Only a few unlucky sea captains discovered that the storm had achieved an intensity no man alive had ever experienced. In Galveston, reassured by Cline's belief that no hurricane could seriously damage the city, there was celebration. Children played in the rising water. Hundreds of people gathered at the beach to marvel at the fantastically tall waves and gorgeous pink sky, until the surf began ripping the city's beloved beachfront apart. Within the next few hours Galveston would endure a hurricane that to this day remains the nation's deadliest natural disaster. In Galveston alone at least 6,000 people, possibly as many as 10,000, would lose their lives, a number far greater than the combined death toll of the Johnstown Flood and 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. And Isaac Cline would experience his own unbearable loss. Meticulously researched and vividly written, Isaac's Storm is based on Cline's own letters, telegrams, and reports, the testimony of scores of survivors, and our latest understanding of the hows and whys of great storms. Ultimately, however, it is the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets nature's last great uncontrollable force. As such, Isaac's Storm carries a warning for our time.
This book bridges the gap between a clinician’s and material scientists’ knowledge by elucidating upon the different biomaterials used in anatomical systems and how those materials react to the human body. It explores both established and future prospective of biomaterial types/designs, and considerations in material selection and synthesis, to guide students from non-clinical background in understanding the relations of material science and the human body.
Major depressive disorder is a serious psychiatric illness affecting approximately 15% of the population. It is also the leading cause of morbidity in the industrial world. Because it is so widespread, people suffering from depression seek help from a wide variety of clinicians, including: family doctors, pediatricians, gynecologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and other therapists. In this OAPL pocket volume, Drs. Stephen Strakowski and Erik Nelson provide practitioners with practical and succinct descriptions of this illness and its management for clinicians without significant experience treating depressive disorders.
This is the story of how Americans attempted to define what it meant to be a citizen of the United States, at a moment of fracture in the republic's history. As Erik Mathisen demonstrates, prior to the Civil War, American national citizenship amounted to little more than a vague bundle of rights. But during the conflict, citizenship was transformed. Ideas about loyalty emerged as a key to citizenship, and this change presented opportunities and profound challenges aplenty. Confederate citizens would be forced to explain away their act of treason, while African Americans would use their wartime loyalty to the Union as leverage to secure the status of citizens during Reconstruction. In The Loyal Republic, Mathisen sheds new light on the Civil War, American emancipation, and a process in which Americans came to a new relationship with the modern state. Using the Mississippi Valley as his primary focus and charting a history that traverses both sides of the battlefield, Mathisen offers a striking new history of the Civil War and its aftermath, one that ushered in nothing less than a revolution in the meaning of citizenship in the United States.
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