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TechKNOW Volume 14, Issue 3
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Caution and Cooperation: The American Civil War in British-American Relations
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“Phillip E. Myers’s Caution and Cooperation places Anglo-American relations during the Civil War within the broader context of the whole nineteenth century, arguing convincingly for the lack of any real chance of British intervention on the side of the Confederacy and dating the end-of-the-century Anglo-American rapprochement back about three decades. Based on extensive research in the United States and Great Britain, this major reinterpretation of the transatlantic special relationship is ‘international history’ in its truest sense.”
—Mary Ann Heiss, Editor, New Studies in U.S. Foreign Relations Series
It has long been a mainstay in historical literature that the Civil War had a deleterious effect on Anglo-American relations and that Britain came close to intervention in the conflict. Historians assert that it was only a combination of desperate diplomacy, the Confederacy’s military losses, and Lincoln’s timely issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation that kept the British on the sidelines. Phillip E. Myers seeks to revise this prevailing view by arguing instead that wartime relations between Britain and the United States were marked by caution rather than conflict.
Using a wide array of primary materials from both sides of the Atlantic, Myers traces the sources of potential Anglo-American wartime turmoil as well as the various reasons both sides had for avoiding war. And while he does note the disagreement between Washington and London, he convincingly demonstrates that transatlantic discord was ultimately minor and neither side seriously considered war against the other.
Myers further extends his study into the postwar period to see how that bond strengthened and grew, culminating with the Treaty of Washington in 1871. The Civil War was not, as many have believed for so long, an unpleasant interruption in British-American affairs; instead, it was an event that helped bring the two countries closer together to seal the friendship.
Soundly researched and cogently argued, Caution and Cooperation will surely prompt discussion among Civil War historians, foreign relations scholars, and readers of history.</p
NATO and the Warsaw Pact: Intrabloc Conflicts
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There is no shortage of literature addressing the workings, influence, and importance of NATO and the Warsaw Pact individually or how the two blocs faced off during the decades of the Cold War. However, little has been written about the various intrabloc tensions that plagued both alliances during the Cold War or about how those tensions affected the alliances’ operation. The essays in NATO and the Warsaw Pact seek to address that glaring gap in the historiography by utilizing a wide range of case studies to explore these often-significant tensions, dispelling in the process all thoughts that the alliances always operated smoothly and without internal dissent.
The volume is divided into two parts, one on each alliance. An introductory essay by S. Victor Papacosma spells out the themes addressed in the individual essays and the volume’s coherent historiographical contribution. They include, but are not limited to, military and political matters, the consequences of World War II for the non-Western world, the role of individuals in shaping historical events, and the unintended consequences of policy choices and developments.
The international group of contributors brings to bear considerable policymaking and academic experience. In approaching the Cold War–era alliances from a new angle and in drawing on recently declassified documentation, this volume adds to the literature in recent international history and will be of interest to scholars in such fields as U.S. foreign relations, European diplomatic history, and security and defense studies, among others.
Visit the Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security site for more information and news related to NATO and the Warsaw Pact.</p
Ohio History 2008
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Contents for Volume 115, 2008
Voting for the Devil: Unequal Partnerships in the Ohio Women’s Suffrage Campaign of 1914
Jessica R. Pliley ...... 4
A Tale of Two Men: Class Traitors and Strikebreaking on Lake Erie, 1886–1911
Chad Pearson ...... 28
“My Father . . . Named Me William Tecumseh”: Rebutting the Charge That General Sherman Lied About His Name
Carl R. Schenker Jr. ...... 55
Writing the History of Karamu House: Philanthropy, Welfare, and Race in Wartime Cleveland
Andrew Fearnley ...... 80
The Partisan: William Davis Gallagher and the Cause of Western Literature
Terry A. Barnhart ...... 101
Book Reviews ...... 121
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TechKNOW Volume 13, Issue 1
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Hobbit (2007)
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Set Design: Robert Katkowsky
Costume Design: Marian Phillips
Actors: Joe Asente, Mike McGrail</p
Dead Man Walking (2007)
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Set Design: Robert Katkowsky
Costume Design: Barbara Ozimek
Actors: Donnagene Palmer, Tom Burd</p
Wizard of Oz (2007)
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Set Design: Robert Katkowsky
Costume Design: JoEllen Wessell
Actors: Daniel-Raymond Nadon and company</p
Fusion Spring 2007
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Subversive Surface: Counter Use
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