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Engineering Victory: The Ingenuity, Proficiency, And Versatility Of Union Citizen Soldiers In Determining The Outcome Of The Civil War, Thomas F. Army Jr
Engineering Victory: The Ingenuity, Proficiency, And Versatility Of Union Citizen Soldiers In Determining The Outcome Of The Civil War, Thomas F. Army Jr
Doctoral Dissertations
My dissertation explores the critical advantage the Union held over the Confederacy in military engineering. The skills Union soldiers displayed during the war at bridge building, railroad repair, and road making demonstrated mechanical ability and often revealed ingenuity and imagination. These skills were developed during the antebellum period when northerners invested in educational systems that served an industrializing economy. Before the war, northern states’ attempt at implementing basic educational reforms, the spread of informal educational practices directed at mechanics and artisans, and the exponential growth in manufacturing all generated a different work related ethos than that of the South. Plantation …
Interview With Ella Shohat And Robert Stam: "Brazil Is Not Travelling Enough": On Postcolonial Theory And Analogous Counter-Currents, Emanuelle Santos, Patricia Schor, Robert P. Stam, Ella Shohat
Interview With Ella Shohat And Robert Stam: "Brazil Is Not Travelling Enough": On Postcolonial Theory And Analogous Counter-Currents, Emanuelle Santos, Patricia Schor, Robert P. Stam, Ella Shohat
Portuguese Cultural Studies
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