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The Women of Colonial Latin America
Surveying the varied experiences of women in colonial Spanish and Portuguese America, this book traces the effects of conquest, colonisation, and settlement on colonial women, beginning with the cultures that would produce Latin America.
Oral History Transcript of an Interview with Barbara Gale Wheeler
Transcript of an oral history interview with enlisted WAVE (Hospital Corps) Barbara Gale Wheeler conducted by Evelyn M. Cherpak on August 3, 2001, in Brooklyn, CT.
Artists, Writers, and Diplomats’ Wives
In Artists, Writers, and Diplomats' Wives: Impressions of Women Travelers in Imperial Russia, the experiences and impressions of sixteen European and North American women who both lived and traveled in Russia during times of peace and war come alive. All these women had their own reasons for going to Russia. Some went with their husband who settled there, others went to paint the aristocracy, to help the lepers or report on the Russian Revolution of 1917. Their experiences and observations of Russian political, social, and cultural life led them to write letters and books and keep journals and diaries about what they saw and how they responded to it---both positively and negatively.
Three Splendid Little Wars
NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT-- OVERSTOCK SALE--Significantly reduced list price while supplies last The book reprints a diary found in the Naval War College archives of Joseph K. Taussig, later a distinguished U.S. naval officer, kept when as a naval cadet (midshipman and junior officer) he participated in the Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, and Boxer Rebellion. The text is supported by helpful editorial notes and introduction, as well as by numerous period photographs and the diarist s sketches of the scenes and events. Other products produced by the U.S. Navy, Naval War College can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/agency/621 "
Oral History Interview with William P. Sheffield
Sheffield discusses his service in the Navy in World War II, including the Communications Office, Washington, D.C., Sub Chaser Training School, assigned to Sub Chaser 1468 with duty in the Caribbean at Trinidad, Sighting a German sub, ordered to Quonset Point NAS and Anti-Submarine Development unit, attended Fire Fighting and Damage Control School, assigned to destroyer transport William M. Hobby as executive officer in the Pacific, then in Japan, separated from the Navy in November 1945, but remained in the Reserves until 1954.
Oral History Interview with Muriel Tweedly
Tweedly joined the WAVES in 1944. She attended U.S. Naval Training School (WR) and Yeoman School at Oklahoma State University. She was stationed at Jacksonville Naval Air Station where she worked in the overhaul and repair section. She discusses work, recreation, living quarters, and friendships. She was discharged in 1945.
Adventuring Through Spanish Colonies
Between 1810 and 1825, 7,000 English, Scottish and Irish mercenaries sailed to Gran Colombia to fight against Spanish colonial rule under the rebel forces of Simón Bolívar. Their motives were mixed. Some travelled for money, others travelled for honour. Adventuring Through Spanish Colonies explores the lives of these men – their encounters with other soldiers, indigenous people, local women and slaves – as recounted in documents that fall outside the usual remit of military, political and economic historians. Matthew Brown considers the social and cultural aspects of the presence of these ‘foreigners’, and shows how they were an essential part of the revolution which eventually gave South America its freedom. Using archival research from England, Scotland, Ireland, Spain, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Colombia, Adventuring Through Spanish Colonies clearly shows the active role that these mercenaries, informal outriders of the British Empire, played in the creation of Latin America as we know it today.
Oral History Interview with Norma Hall Smith
Smith discusses her decision to join the navy Nurse Corps in 1944, indoctrination at Norfolk naval Hospital, assignments at Newport Naval Hospital, Pearl Harbor Naval Hospital and after Vj Day an assignment at a dispensary in Kwajalein, Marshall Islands. Topics include living and working conditions in each assignment. Includes impact of WWII service on her life and positive comments on the Navy Nurse Corps.
