The Letters of John Chamberlain
Author | : John Chamberlain |
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Total Pages | : 716 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : John Chamberlain |
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Total Pages | : 716 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Jeremiah E. Goulka |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2005-10-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0807875856 |
Best known as the hero of Little Round Top at Gettysburg and the commanding officer of the troops who accepted the Confederates' surrender at Appomattox, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828-1914) has become one of the most famous and most studied figures of Civil War history. After the war, he went on to serve as governor of Maine and president of Bowdoin College. The first collection of his postwar letters, this book offers important insights for understanding Chamberlain's later years and his place in chronicling the war. The letters included here reveal Chamberlain's perspective on military events at Gettysburg, Five Forks, and Appomattox, and on the planning of ceremonies to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Gettysburg. As Jeremiah Goulka points out in his introduction, the letters also shed light on Chamberlain's views on politics, race relations, and education, and they expose some of the personal difficulties he faced late in life. On a broader scale, Chamberlain's correspondence contributes to a better understanding of the influence of Civil War veterans on American life and the impact of the war on veterans themselves. It also says much about state and national politics (including the politics of pensions), family roles and relationships, and ideas of masculinity in Victorian America.
Author | : John Chamberlain |
Publisher | : Johnson Reprint Corporation |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1861 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Chamberlain |
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Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1861 |
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Author | : John Chamberlain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 708 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9780598204882 |
Author | : John Chamberlain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 1966 |
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Author | : Thomas Desjardin |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 471 |
Release | : 2012-05-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1780964269 |
The largest collection of never-before published letters from and to Civil War hero Joshua Chamberlain provides a foundation for a new look at the life of one of the War's most enduring legends. His life is a remarkable story of perseverance, tragedy and triumph. From an insecure young man with a considerable stutter who grew up in a small town in eastern Maine, Joshua Chamberlain rose to become a major general, recipient of the Medal of Honor, Governor of Maine and President of Bowdoin College. His writings are among the most oft-quoted of all Civil War memoirs, and he has become a legendary, even mythical historical figure. In 1995, the National Civil War Museum acquired a collection of approximately three hundred letters written by or sent to Chamberlain from his college years in 1852 to his death in 1914. Author Thomas Desjardin puts Chamberlain's words in contemporary and historical context and uses this extraordinary collection of letters to reveal – for the first time – the full and remarkable life of Joshua Chamberlain.
Author | : Robert Self |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351963791 |
As a primary source of historical evidence and insight, it is difficult to overstate the value and importance of Neville Chamberlain's diary letters to his sisters. They represent the most complete and illuminating 'insider' record of British politics between the wars yet to be published. From 1915 Chamberlain wrote detailed weekly epistles to his sisters until his death in 1940; a confidential account of events covering the quarter of a century during which he stood at the very centre of Conservative and national politics. Beyond the fascination of the historical record of people and events, these letters are extremely valuable for the remarkable light they throw upon the personality and character of the private man lurking behind the austerely forbidding public persona.
Author | : Yuzo Ota |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136638679 |
This first full length critical biography of one of the most significant figures in Japanese Studies in the last hundred years is based on an earlier work published in Japanese (Iwanami Shoten, 1990). Ota sees Chamberlain as a giant of his period, both academically and intellectually. His achievements include the first publication of a translation of the Kojiki, his pioneering work as the 'father' of Japanese linguistics, and the acclaimed Things Japanese which served generations as an everyman encyclopaedia. However, Ota also acknowledges Chamberlain's vision in recognising the distinctive merits and strengths of Japanese society and culture at a time of xenophobic Europeanism, made possible by the fact that Chamberlain was ahead of his times as a multi-lingual and multi-cultural personality.
Author | : John Chamberlain |
Publisher | : |
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Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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