Sewanee Sesquicentennial History: The Making of the University of the South is the first comprehensive history of a unique educational institution. Making full use of the University's rich archival resources and of many interviews, the history examines and re-examines every facet of Sewanee's storied past: from the original concepts underlying its creation to the desperate struggle after the Civil War to become a distinctive and effective Episcopal university in the South. Newly discovered documents confirm the offer of the vice-chancellorship to Jefferson Davis, and include correspondence between Vice-Chancellor Benjamin Wiggins and President Theodore Roosevelt. This history traces the constant struggle to raise adequate financial resources, a goal not achieved until the 1980s. Remarkable athletic feats (and defeats), the confrontation and accommodation with the civil rights movement, and the key role played by the University's Board of Trustees are seen in new perspectives.

Sewanee Sesquicentennial History The Making of the University of the South

Samuel R. Williamson Jr.

University of the South

The Politics of Grand Strategy: Britain and France Prepare for War, 1904-1914

History

Europe

Prometheus+books

Williamson and Van Wyk's carefully chosen primary documents memoirs, diaries, government documents, newspaper editorials, and other contemporary accounts introduce readers to the civilian and military leaders whose decisions contributed to events that led to World War I. The documents, along with the authors' scholarly, engaging analysis and insights, reveal personal and national conceptions of war and peace, militaristic impulses, and influential contextual factors, including alliance structures, arms races, and mobilization arrangements of the time. Coverage includes all the major powers of the war Austria Hungary, Germany, Russia, Italy, France, England, and Serbia.
 The authors' conclusion that individuals, not monolithic governments and impersonal forces, made the decisions in the summer of 1914 that led to the First World War, is worthy of consideration in the current era of global tension and terrorism.
 Title of related interest also available from Waveland Press: Lafore, The Long Fuse: An Interpretation of the Origins of World War I, Second Edition (ISBN 9780881339543).

July 1914: Soldiers, Statesmen, and the Coming of the Great War-A Documentary History

Russel Van Wyk

Military

Waveland Press. Inc.

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