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" . . . compelling, dramatic, and well-written . . . " --Journal of Southern History
". . . compelling narrative of four years of virtually unmitigated savagery." --Blue & Gray Magazine
"[A] thorough and comprehensive study of this tragic, almost forgotten episode of American history." --History
A riveting eyewitness account of the bloody guerrilla fighting that raged along the Missouri-Kansas border during the Civil War. Drawing from a wide array of contemporary documents--including diaries, letters, and first-hand newspaper accounts--Thomas Goodrich presents a hair-raising report of life in this merciless guerrilla war.
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War At Its Worst.......2007-04-07
Every time I read about the guerrilla warfare in Kansas and Missouri I'm amazed that they were ever able to settle the region again. Both sides had their share of psychopaths who used the war to justify robbery, rape and murder.
Each side committed attrocities, which were used as justification for the attrocities committed by the other side.
The book is well-researched, and filled with first-hand accounts of what went on there. Anybody who thinks of war as a glorious adventure should read this book and see how ugly it can become. The brutality of the way they killed one another and mutilated the bodies of their victims is shocking.
Men surrendered, being told they would be treated as prisoners of war, only to be gunned down in cold blood. The murdered men were sometimes beheaded or scalped, and some of the killers rode around with necklaces made of body parts they had cut off of their victims.
It's not a very pleasant book to read, but if you want to know more about that part of the war, this is a good way to learn about it. If you don't want to read something this violent, but still want to know more about this part of the war, you should read Ride With the Devil (a novel covering the same topic) or watch the movie by the same name. The novel and movie are plenty violent, but not nearly as graphic as this book.
Much more brutal than The Civil War that was fought in the East.......2007-01-01
Well written account of the border wars between Missouri and Kansas. In a place and time without laws or remorse, this book can be shocking at times but the truth can be shocking as we all know. This book comes well recomended for anyone wanting to know more about this violent and bloody time in American history.
Lacking depth and narrative.......2006-05-14
The guerilla warfare along the Kansas-Missouri boarder brought forth some of the bloodiest incidents of the Civil War. Unlike many of the larger battles between Union and Confederate forces (where armies were pitted against armies) the conflict between Northern Jayhawkers and pro-South Bushwhackers moved beyond military actions and brought the war to innumerable civilians. Both sides burned and pillaged the region, causing massive financial loss and an untold loss of life.
Goodrich does an adequate job broadly describing the Boarder Wars of 1861-1865. His use of primary sources, i.e. diaries, newspaper accounts and correspondence brings an interesting look into the lives of those who lived through those bloody years. However, I found Goodrich's narrative lacking and the depth of his book to be quite shallow.
Although briefly touching on the more notable incidents of the war, i.e. the Lawrence Raid, Ewing's General Order No. 11 and others, he fails to thoroughly examine the events with a keen enough eye. The same can be said for his description of pertinent actors. Although remaining objective and granting fair coverage to both sides, he fails to truly explain the motives behind much of the guerilla leadership and their role in the conflict.
Little new was provided by Goodrich that has not been thoroughly fleshed out by other authors. I would recommend "The Devil Knows How to Ride..." by Edward E. Leslie. All though concentrating on William Quantrill, Leslie's work provides a much greater study of the guerilla wars than Goodrich.
No One Was a Hero.......2006-03-20
As the title states, this is indeed a riveting acccount of this era and place. Although a slim volume, this book is definitely a page-turner that is very well written and balanced with anecdotes, eyewitness accounts, and newspaper articles from the time.
With most histories it is easy to take sides in hindsight, or to proclaim who was right or wrong. Not so with the border war, where there were no heroes, no shining hour of courage, no happy ending to years of suffering. Both sides lost the battle as the border war raged. This is American History in its darkest time as lawlessness ruled, as the eyes of a nation were riveted on "big" battles to the east.
Although I was familiar with the redlegs, Quantrill, and Bloody Bill Anderson before I read this book, Goodrich breathes life into them, Quantrill benefiting the most. Often one of the most reviled characters in American history, Goodrich shows him as a more complex figure. In a war zone where any vestige of nobility was scarce, Quantrill comes off best, standing by his orders that women would not be harmed. If only the redlegs and Anderson's men had such a strain of character. That isn't to say Quantrill is heroic, just not as demonic as the other participants.
While I was reading this book, I also waded through a history of the Foreign Legion, which was more "academic" (meaning tedious and poorly written). In comparison to that book, this is a classic - even without so harsh a contrast this book is well written, well organized, and well thought out. I would recommend it to anyone as a satisfying reading experience.
An awesome book!.......2003-11-11
For many years I had studied the Civil War, especially the
Eastern theater and sometimes the Western theater. This was one
of the first books I read on the Trans-Mississippi, and it was one of the most eye-opening books I have ever read on the entire
topic of the Civil War. It shines a spotlight on little-known areas and personalities of the war and particularly on the murderous and often personal violence in the regions west of the
Mississippi. It offers a great corrective for those who view the
Civil War as a "gentleman's conflict" and a "chivalrous era."
Buy and read this book!
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Since the 1940s Americans and Britons have come to enjoy an era of rising material abundance. Yet this has been accompanied by a range of social and personal disorders, including family breakdown, addiction, mental instability, crime, obesity, inequality, economic insecurity, and declining trust. Avner Offer argues that well-being has lagged behind affluence in these societies, because they present an environment in which consistent choices are difficult to achieve over different time ranges and in which the capacity for personal and social commitment is undermined by the flow of novelty. His approach draws on economics and social science, makes use of the latest cognitive research, and provides a detailed and reasoned critique of modern consumer society, especially the assumption that freedom of choice necessarily maximizes individual and social well-being. The book falls into three parts. Part one analyses the ways in which economic resources map on to human welfare, why choice is so intractable, and how commitment to people and institutions is sustained. It argues that choice is constrained by prior obligation and reciprocity. The second section then applies these conceptual arguments to comparative empirical studies of advertising, of eating and obesity, and of the production and acquisition of appliances and automobiles. Finally, in part three, Offer investigates social and personal relations in the USA and Britain, including inter-personal regard, the rewards and reversals of status, the social and psychological costs of inequality, and the challenges posed to heterosexual love and to parenthood by the rise of affluence.
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Wealth of information and insightful interpretation.......2007-03-08
The great American vaudeville singer Sophie Tucker remarked, "I've been rich and I've been poor---and believe me, rich is better." This book, which documents in great detail and insight the vast growth in per capita income in the United States and Britain (with some attention to other countries) over the past century, contrasts Sophie Tucker's widely shared sentiment with the carefully researched fact that people are getting richer, but they are not getting happier. What, asks Offer, accounts for this curious situation?
An earlier generation answered this question by noting that being richer involves both having more than before, and having more than others. If relative status is important but absolute wealth is not, argued Robert Frank (1985), then when everyone becomes richer, average well-being will not increase. Indeed, this had been the common view (although with numerous dissenters), since James Duesenbury's famous "ratchet effect" explanation of the macroeconomic consumption to income ratio (Duesenberry, 1949) and the similar view of Modigliani (1949). While relative status is clearly important for some individuals, there is no convincing evidence that it of great importance to most individuals. Certainly many individuals are eager to become a smaller frog in a larger pond by moving to a richer community, and the rate of migration from poor to rich countries is hardly favorable to the relative status hypothesis. Moreover this "hedonic treadmill" explanation ran afoul of the data in a brilliant study by Brickman et al. (1978). They found that large exogenously-generated changes in material circumstances, such as winning the lottery or becoming handicapped through accident exhibit little difference in subjective well-being even several months thereafter. The general implication of this line of research is that some people are happy and some are unhappy, and changes in wealth position has little long run effect on their subjective well-being.
Offer appears basically to accept this position (although he is quick to stress that insightfully interpreting the Modern Condition is not his forté9), updating it using information from several recent studies that find that poverty, divorce and unemployment have major negative impact on personal well-being, and there is a small but significant positive slope to the income and well-being relationship even above the poverty line, both within and across countries, especially when objective measures of well-being are used (mortality, morbidity, life expectancy, major incidence of mental illness, infant mortality, and the like).
Many environmentalists and progressive egalitarians accept this view on the basis of personal observation, using it to suggest alternatives to GDP growth and redistribution towards the poor. But, the hedonic treadmill is deeply counter-intuitive. People make great sacrifices to achieve financial security and to assure their children with the fruits of material progress, and upon serious introspection, few will affirm that the benefits are either relative or short-lived. Personally, I have been poor and did not like it, and I am now comfortably well-off, and I like it quite a bit---every day and every little luxury (such as sitting here overlooking the Danube writing this book review on a first-class laptop, every keystroke of which gives me great pleasure, and which plays whatever enchanting music happens to be my current whim, over an Internet connection, using a music service that I---and millions of others---can afford a subscription). Moreover, subjective well-being is very important, but the fact is that neither I nor my wife, nor my son, would be alive today if it were not for modern amenities (in this case, medical services).
Offer explains the hedonic treadmill (the term is due to Brickman and Campbell (1971), and is not used by Offer) using modern behavioral economics. Because of the common tendency to prefer small short-term rewards to large long-term rewards, we do not know how to turn the vast increases in material wealth that has come to us into real well-being (Ainslie, 1975, Elster, 1979, Loewenstein and Hoch, 1991, Laibson, 1997, Oswald, 1997, O'Donoghue and Rabin, 1999). The "challenge of affluence" is, according to Offer, the problem of learning to dealing with affluence in a manner that turns material comfort into human self-actualization. Observing the antics of (a highly visible but unknown fraction of) the newly rich, with their obscene displays of opulence, their vulgar tastes, their substance addictions and broken families, and their corrupted children does indeed remind one of the prejudices of "old wealth" that has had a few generations to adjust to material comforts against the base aspirations and untutored behavior of"new wealth." Perhaps, then, there is a hope for the affluent societies after all.
Unfortunately, there is no known science of self-actualization, so my remarks on the topic must perforce flow from observation and introspection (it is little solice to be reminded that Hume, Locke, Shakespeare, Voltaire, and their like, relied almost exclusively on such forms of knowledge). I recall my concern for such issues in writing my Ph.D. dissertation some forty years ago, the head quote of which was from the jazz pianist Mose Allison, who wrote "things are getting better and better. It's people I'm worried about." I took my inspiration from the Karl Marx of the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, which precede his development of historical materialism, and reflect the Zeitgeist of Hegel and Feuerbach (Marx, 1959). My interpretation of Marx's argument was that human nature (Marx used the term Gattungswesen---species-being) consists in several capacities, physical, psychomotor, cognitive, affective, aesthetic, and spiritual, and well-being consisted in the full development of these personal capacities. While a high level of material affluence is not an absolute prerequisite to such personal development, for those of use lacking an innately saintly character, it surely helps. Goods, services, and leisure, in this view, are merely instruments that facilitate the growth of personal capacities, and the cardinal sin of life in the affluent society is to "fetishize" commodities in the vain belief that they represent a direct route to self-fulfillment: what you cannot be, your money can buy for you. The correct position, I believe, is that what you are not, your money can help you become---a far more engaging, yet optimistic, take on the challenge of affluence. I developed this theme in several articles (Gintis 1972a,b 1974). The theme has been developed in an extremely powerful manner by Nobel prize economist Amartya Sen (1985).
Does affluence lead to the demand for the development of personal capacities, or to the deepening of commodity fetishism? The picture is not uniform. While there is no doubt but that American and British workers trade off income for job quality and leisure, they appear to do so at a lesser rate than their European counterparts. Indeed as Offer notes (p. 324), family work hours have reversed their long-term downward trend in the United States and has been increasing in recent years, in large part due to increase female labor market participation. Of course, both work hours and leisure have increased for American families due to the prevalence of labor-saving technology in the home and the movement of health care, food preparation, and education from the home to the market. Moreover, the quality of jobs has doubtless improved with the shift from unskilled manual labor to skilled white collar labor, and many individuals consider their work experience as a positive contribution to their well-being, much as our hunter-gatherer forebears did, with a joy that perhaps was confined to a small minority in the long diaspora between life in the Pleistocene and life in modern, technologically advanced, society. On the other hand, there is nothing quite as revolting as a statistic reported in The Economist several months back that 80% of French college students aspire to a career of lifetime security as functionaries in the French government bureaucracy. Such a career may be self-actualizing for a fraction of French youth, but my insight into human nature judges 80% as an order of magnitude too high.
Offer's analysis makes it clear that economic research and proactive social policy may play an important role in meeting the challenge of affluence. The American public, for instance, voraciously consumes advice on living the good life, the news being full of the latest studies on proper diet, health maintenance practices, spiritual life, and management of interpersonal relations. It is likely that future improvements in the treatment of mental and physical illness will somewhat level the playing field in the capacity of individuals to live fulfilled lives, liberating the self-help books from the realm of self-survival to that of self-actualization. There has been a notable increase in research in this area (Frey and Stutzer, 2005), including the impressively thorough work of Daniel Kahneman and his co-workers (Kahneman and Krueger, 2006).
Throughout most of its history, economic theory has followed Jeremy Bentham's utilitarianism. It was Bentham who opined "Prejudice apart, the game of push-pin is of equal value with the arts and sciences of music and poetry. If the game of push-pin furnish more pleasure, it is more valuable than either. Everybody can play at push-pin: poetry and music are relished only by a few." Bentham's egalitarianism is laudable, but the alternative is that Pushkin is better than pushpin, and the uneducated are cut off from fruitful paths of self-realization by not being capable of appreciating Pushkin. Indeed, my early publications took the position that not all preferences are equal, a position advocated before me by John Stuart Mill in his opposition to Bentham's utilitarianism. Happiness, I argued in support of Mill, is as much the development of preferences as their satisfaction. What are more developed preferences? They are ones that draw more heavily on our innate capacities, physical, psychomotor, affective, cognitive, aesthetic, and spiritual. My viewpoint was considered virtually heretical at the time. I still remember the embarrassed chuckles of my fellow graduate students in Robert Dorfman's Microeconomic I class when I suggested that some tastes are better than others. I analyzed the welfare implications of preference change in a less off-hand manner in my Ph.D. dissertation (Harvard University, 1969). To my surprise (and delight) in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in 1970, Paul Samuelson pointedly criticized my writings on the grounds that economists should not impose their personal tastes and moral choices on others. "Just recently, says Samuelson, I was reading an article... written in blank verse...The writer was scathing on the notion of Pareto-optimality. Yet...it seemed to me that precisely in a society grown affluent...there arises an especial importance to the notion of giving people what they want." My foray into blank verse may not have panned out, but as evidence of progress in economic theory, there are probably few economists alive today that do not believe that an important contribution of the economy to well-being is the improvement of moral character and personal capacities to enjoy what life has to offer.
Offer's book covers consumption and leisure as source of personal well being, but there is strong evidence that social conditions are also important source of happiness and unhappiness. For instance, Frey and Stutzer (2000) exhibit a strong correlation between the level of political democracy and individual well-being, correcting for the effects of democracy on material wealth. However, there is some evidence that the correlation is bidirectional. There is also evidence that some minority groups who are victims of social prejudice suffer attenuated well-being. These phenomena should be included in an overall assessment of the causes of well-being.
The major innovation in Offer's analysis is his deployment of the results of behavioral research in economics and psychology towards understanding the relationship between economic growth and individual well-being. By well-being, Offer almost always means subjective well-being, and despite an excellent treatment of the relationship between health, status, and income, I would have liked and expanded treatment of the objective aspects of well-being, such as mortality and infant mortality. I suspect that Offer will be the start of a trend in economic growth research that uses behavioral measures and experiments to assess the success of various policies, and to suggest ways of transcending the human weaknesses that prevent the translation of material comforts into happiness and self-actualization.
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Modern Britain Since 1979: A Reader (Tauris History Readers)
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In 1979, Margaret Thatcher rose to power and the ensuing years are key to understanding Britain in the 21st century. Keith Laybourn and Christine Collette have gathered a carefully selected collection of materials from primary and secondary sources. They cover the major themes in British social and cultural history and politics of the last 25 years; trade unionism, the welfare state, Conservative politics, Blair's "Third Way". The conflict over Britain's relations with Europe, along with regionalism and devolution are illustrated, as well as the shifts in ethnicity, racial and sexual equality and immigration.
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Europe Since 1945
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Since 1945 Great Britain has gone through many changes: the loss of an empire, economic decline and resurgence, entry into Europe, evolution into a multicultural society, and devolution, to name only the more obvious. In this book, six distinguished historians each take a theme - politics, international relations, high, middle , and low culture, social and economic policies, the nature of civil society, and Ireland - and set out the fundamental nature and development of each. These are set within the wider context of the Cold War, and its impact both internationally and domestically; of the impact on politics, economics and foreign policy of the decline of the pound and the attempts to arrest this; and finally, of the growing impact of Europe.
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The design and development of British bombers since WWII is covered in depth. Utilizes recently declassified archives to reveal little-known facts about special bomber development projects. Covers the design backgrounds for the V-Bomber program, Canberra, Buccaneer, Avro 730, TSR.2, Harrier, Jaguar and Tornado. Contains many previously unpublished illustrations, plus specially commissioned artworks of prototypes in contemporary markings.
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lets look beyond the hardware.......2007-06-27
A fascinating work, but it would be really good to look at policy, domestic AND international, and fiscal issues alongside the technical ones when looking at why certain projects were canceled. TSR-2 still rankles, especially when the F-111 was effectively forced down Britain's (& Australia's) throat by the US. Still, its great data for the historians.
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Britain & European Integration Since 1945
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British foreign policy towards Vietnam illustrates the evolution of Britain's position within world geopolitics from 1943-1950.
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Britain Since 1945
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The fourth edition of Britain Since 1945 focuses on domestic policy and politics but also covers external and international relations. Now in its fifth edition this is the definitive text on contemporary British political history. It is now fully updated and revised to include a chapter on Tony Blair's administration and an analysis of the London Mayoral elections. David Childs begins with the victorious Britain in 1945 and continues to Major's "classless society" of 1990-96. Key new topics include the monarchy in crisis, the economic impact of Thatcherism, New Labour and Tony Blair, the conflict of Northern Ireland and the issues surrounding Britain's participation in the European Union.
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Britain Since 1945 : A Political History.......2001-09-27
An excellent book that is useful to all students of British History. I was particularly pleased to see a section on Ireland included as it is all too often neglected, even though our histories are so intertwined.
David Childs takes a multi-disciplinary approach with a 'panoramic' view of society from a political perspective. This academic book is very accessible to people with a general interest in British political history.
Graham Duncan - Dublin
historical read with well presented facts.......1999-10-01
childs book is an extremely interesting read,it details almost all relevant historical political data from the watershed of 1945 right through the changes in govt for the next 45 years or so,detailing the feeling of the public when labour win with its first majority govt,the personalities are pretty well documentated in the chapters,the divisions within the labour party after the election win,the witchhunt aginst the communists at the peak of the cold war and the battle for attlees leadership by morrison,the conservatives acceptance of certain nationalisation issues,their consensus with labour on certain apects of the welfare state,the conservatives change of policies that gained them power again from 1951 -64,churchill and mc millans leader ship,relinquinshig india and the start of the cold war right through to the trade unions power and the miners strikes and edward heath and harold wilsons era right through to thatchers win in 79 ,her free market policies ,strong on law and order ,scrapping trade unions power,her hatred of socialism and her capitalistic policies,keeping her cabinet in the dark over lots of issues,poll tax and hungerstrikes are all well documented ,childs exaggerated in the section on terrorism when he wrote in deal england 40 soldiers were killed by the ira when in fact only 8 were killed .black monday and her being pushed out paving the way for major.
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Britain since 1945: Aspects of Identity
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Illustrated throughout with relevant images, maps, charts and timelines, Britain since 1945 is an ideal introductory text for students of British Studies, cultural studies and modern British history. Assuming no prior knowledge, Leese offers students of all backgrounds both the essential chronological grounding and vital insight into the issues of identity necessary for a full understanding of contemporary Britain, setting social and cultural developments into their historical contexts.
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