Civil War

Caras e caros colegas, 

Segue divulgação do recém-lançado livro Tempos de fúria: memórias do massacre de Homoíne, 18 de Julho de 1987 (Edições Colibri, Lisboa, 2018), cujo autor, Hassane Armando, é um civil sobrevivente do referido massacre ocorrido durante a guerra civil em Moçambique (1977-1992) e que hoje em dia é professor de Língua Portuguesa na escola secundária de Homoíne.

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Diana Lary.  China's Civil War: A Social History, 1945-1949.  New
Approaches to Asian History Series. Cambridge  Cambridge University
Press, 2015.  xii + 283 pp.  $29.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-107-67826-2;
$88.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-05467-7.

Reviewed by James Hudson (University of Tennessee)
Published on H-Asia (April, 2018)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha

China's Civil War

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The issue also entails what type of ironclad. On the western rivers, at least, the CSS Arkansas and CSS Tennessee were too large and too poorly designed to be competitive with the Union vessels. A number of smaller boats that had reasonable amounts of armor plating would have been a better strategy. Having said that, there is no way the Confederacy could have kept up with Union production.

Given that so few of the Confederate ironclads accomplished anything of value (see the CSS Arkansas on the Mississippi and the CSS Tennessee, especially, which did nothing to prevent Farragut's victory in the Battle of Mobile Bay) and that much of the armor came from railroad iron, it seems logical that this scarce material could have been put to better use maintaining or building rails rather than uselessly submerging it.

Dear All, 

Some of you will take interest in the following write-up on a recent roundtable at the annual OAH meeting on emancipation, abolition, and their relationships to the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction.  Looks like it was a lively session!

Kind Regards, 

David Prior
Editor, H-Slavery
Assistant Professor of History, UNM