Looking Forward To The Past

For me, the New Year embodies a sentiment best expressed by President John F. Kennedy: We must use time as a tool, not as a couch. And while the turning of the calendar begs for a nostalgic mental journey into the past, it is the historian and history lover that truly understand the power of this ...

\u27Dramatic Consequences\u27: James Mcpherson Analyzes Antietam

Civil War Book Review (cwbr): You chose to write about September 13, 1862, and McClellan\u27s lack of aggressive action concerning Lee\u27s orders in Days of Destiny: Crossroads in American History (DK Publishing, ISBN 0789480107, $34.95, hardcover). What motivated you to choose this moment f...

Skill And Balance

When I was in the third grade one of my friends convinced me that learning to walk with a book balanced on my head would be a valuable life skill and social asset. My friend was right. Contradictions permeate most aspects of life, and it is by aiming for balance that we reconcile them to ourselves, ...

Theater Of War: Capturing Battle In Film And Fiction An Interview With Ron Maxwell And Jeff Shaara

Facts reveal battle strategies, political maneuvering, and casualty lists that give us the details of war. But it is the fictional accounts produced over the past 130 years that convey the intimate, human moments that pierce our hearts and illuminate our imaginations. The novel--and in modern time...

Tribes And Tribulations: Barbara Cloud Explores Issues Of Family And War

Civil War Book Review (cwbr): You mention in the introduction of Minister to the Cherokees that you are a descendant of James Anderson Slover. How does your relationship to Slover affect this project? Barbara Cloud (bc): The main impact is that it gave me access to the primary...

Living With History

Most often when the term living history is used, it is in reference to reenactments. From my short tenure as editor at Civil War Book Review, I find this definition far too limiting. Instead, I turn to T.S. Eliot who once said, The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness ...

Between History And Fiction

Unfortunately fiction and history, both the products of our contemplation, compilation, and creativity, have not always been happy bedfellows. Historians fear that writers will abandon all facts, as William Faulkner seems to advocate: I don\u27t care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you...

Servitization and operations management : a service-dominant logic approach

Managing organisational performance in sectors such as equipment provision has become increasingly complex as competition has heightened and firms have felt pressure to add value through the provision of services (Baines et al, 2007; Howard and Caldwell, 2011; Neely et al., 2011). This provision is commonly referred to as the servitization of manufacturing (Vandermerwe & Rada, 1988). By extending the traditional offering of equipment to include service activities however, underlying operational delivery systems and processes have become more complex to manage and co-ordinate. No longer are firms simply making and shipping products; they are now engaged in a more complex world of design and delivery (Neely et al., 2011). This study aims to explore servitization from a value perspective through the lens of Service-Dominant (S-D) logic, and to propose its implications for operations management

Feminist hard-boiled detective fiction as political protest in the tradition of women proletarian writers of the 1930s

Contemporary feminist hard-boiled detective fiction has been studied as an adaptation of the traditional masculine hard-boiled detective genre. Writers such as Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton, and Marcia Muller create compelling feminist protagonists to fill the role of detective. The successes and failures of these feminist detectives have then been measured against the standards created in the classic genre by Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and James M. Cain. The classic hard-boiled masculine genre came of age in the 1930s and 1940s at the same time as proletarian literature. The two genres share many characteristics including reliance upon first person narrative, the tough guy voice, an awareness of political and social hierarchies, and the utilization of realism. While women writers such as Josephine Herbst and Catherine Brody were drawn to the political cause of the proletarian, they were separated from the working class by their socioeconomic ties and from the literary proletarian hero by its masculine conception. Consequently, their fiction often included the middle-class woman intellectual struggling to help the oppressed worker. In these works, gender, class, politics, and social order are intertwined. The characters explore these concepts and what avenues of rebellion and power were open to women at the time. The struggles explored in the writing of women proletarian writers from the 1930s have much in common with the issues examined in contemporary feminist hard-boiled detective fiction. Both genres show women characters with an awareness of the power of language to include and exclude, the importance of physical presentation and performance, the prestige of being associated with specific social classes, the power found in ties to communities and family, a problematic relationship with violence, and the power of revealing and interpreting information. It is clear that feminist hard-boiled detective fiction is then a genre of political protest in the tradition of women proletarian writers of the 1930s