Social Differences in Contemporary America

Politics & Social Sciences

Davis, James A.

Social Sciences

Harcourt College Pub.

In December 1863, Civil War soldiers took refuge from the dismal conditions of war and weather. They made their winter quarters in the Piedmont region of central Virginia: the Union’s Army of the Potomac in Culpeper County and the Confederacy’s Army of Northern Virginia in neighboring Orange County. For the next six months the opposing soldiers eyed each other warily across the Rapidan River. In Music Along the Rapidan James A. Davis examines the role of music in defining the social communities that emerged during this winter encampment. Music was an essential part of each soldier’s personal identity, and Davis considers how music became a means of controlling the acoustic and social cacophony of war that surrounded every soldier nearby. Music also became a touchstone for colliding communities during the encampment—the communities of enlisted men and officers or Northerners and Southerners on the one hand and the shared communities occupied by both soldier and civilian on the other. The music enabled them to define their relationships and their environment, emotionally, socially, and audibly.

Music Along the Rapidan: Civil War Soldiers, Music, and Community during Winter Quarters, Virginia

Arts & Photography

Music

University Of Nebraska Press

This monograph is not statistical. It looks instead at pre-statistical assumptions about dependent variables and causal order. Professor Davis spells out the logical principles that underlie our ideas of causality and explains how to discover causal direction, irrespective of the statistical technique used. He stresses throughout that knowledge of the "real world" is important and repeatedly challenges the myth that causal problems can be solved by statistical calculations alone.

The Logic Of Causal Order (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)

Sage Publications, Inc.

The NORC General Social Survey: A User′s Guide (Guides to Major Social Science Data Bases)

The answers to questions on a wide variety of social and political issues from more than 25,000 respondents are contained in the General Social Survey (GSS) data base. The authors, who have directed the GSS since its inception, have set out to enable social scientists to exploit this large data set more effectively.  The book outlines such topics as the recurrent, replicated `core′ items suitable for trend analyses, the annual topical modules on subjects of current interest and the international modules produced in collaboration with the International Social Survey Programme.

Smith, Tom W.

General Social Surveys, 1972-1989: Cumulative Codebook (National Data Program for the Social Sciences, No 10)

Natl Opinion Research Center

General social surveys, 1972-1996: Cumulative codebook (National Data Program for the Social Science series)

National Opinion Research Center

General Social Surveys, 1972-1998: Cumulative Codebook (National Data for the Social Sciences)

Kurt Matthews is bewildered by an old man's story of a legend, of Warajo and the falling stars. He now has strange dreams of events of long ago, what did it all mean! Who was Warajo? Follow Kurt on his quest for the answers, to these puzzling questions! FALLING STARS is man's survival!

Falling Stars

Literature & Fiction

Action & Adventure

Xlibris

Historians have long treated the patriotic anthems of the American Civil War as colorful, if largely insignificant, side notes. Beneath the surface of these songs, however, is a complex story. “Maryland, My Maryland” was one of the most popular Confederate songs during the American Civil War, yet its story is full of ironies that draw attention to the often painful and contradictory actions and beliefs that were both cause and effect of the war. Most telling of all, it was adopted as one of a handful of Southern anthems even though it celebrated a state that never joined the Confederacy. In Maryland, My Maryland: Music and Patriotism during the American Civil War James A. Davis illuminates the incongruities underlying this Civil War anthem and what they reveal about patriotism during the war. The geographic specificity of the song’s lyrics allowed the contest between regional and national loyalties to be fought on bandstands as well as battlefields and enabled “Maryland, My Maryland” to contribute to the shift in patriotic allegiance from a specific, localized, and material place to an ambiguous, inclusive, and imagined space. Musical patriotism, it turns out, was easy to perform but hard to define for Civil War–era Americans.

Maryland, My Maryland: Music and Patriotism during the American Civil War

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