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Lieferstatus:	i.d.R. innert 14-24 Tagen versandfertig
Veröffentlichung:	Dezember 2009
Genre:	Geschichte / Politik / Kultur
ISBN:	9780980089790
EAN-Code:	9780980089790
Verlag:	Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 213 mm / B 140 mm / D 8 mm
Gewicht:	159 gr
Seiten:	200
Bewertung:	Titel bewerten / Meinung schreiben

Inhalt:

For almost two hundred years, Arkansans have been part of America s struggle to maintain democracy and keep the peace at home and around the globe. Homefront Arkansas: Arkansans Face Wartime Past and Present shows how war has affected those at home as well as those who served as soldiers. The chapters include: * A wounded Civil War soldier stumbles onto a homestead after a battle at Poison Springs, Arkansas, forever changing the family there * In 1875, Arkansans take sides in the Brooks-Baxter War, involving two men each claiming to be the governor of Arkansas * Arkansas volunteers follow Teddy Roosevelt into the Spanish-American War, and find troops crowded into a filthy camp as they wait to be shipped out * An African American girl leaves her native state to escape persecution, only to find that a world war is threatening to envelop her new home in England Woody s stories provide a factual and compelling backdrop for Arkansas s history as seen through its conflicts. Fascinated readers will follow the chronology of Arkansans who met the nation s call both at home and abroad."