Bøger af Michael A. Morrison

Sidelights on Germany: Studies of German Life and Character During the Great War, Based on the Enemy Press (1918) is a book written by Michael A. Morrison. The book is a collection of essays that provide a unique perspective on German life and character during World War I. The essays are based on articles that were published in the enemy press during the war. The book covers a wide range of topics, including German culture, society, politics, and the military. The essays provide insights into the German mindset and the propaganda that was used to support the war effort. The book also explores the impact of the war on German civilians and the challenges they faced during the conflict.Overall, Sidelights on Germany is a fascinating read for anyone interested in the history of World War I and the German perspective on the conflict. The book provides a valuable glimpse into the mindset of the German people during a critical period in history.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Tracing the sectionalization of American politics in the 1840s and 1850s, Michael Morrison offers a comprehensive study of how slavery and territorial expansion intersected as causes of the Civil War. Specifically, he argues that the common heritage of the American Revolution bound Americans together until disputes over the extension of slavery into the territories led northerners and southerners to increasingly divergent understandings of the Revolution's legacy. Manifest Destiny promised the literal enlargement of freedom through the extension of American institutions all the way to the Pacific. At each step--from John Tyler's attempt to annex Texas in 1844, to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, to the opening shots of the Civil War--the issue of slavery had to be confronted. Morrison shows that the Revolution was the common prism through which northerners and southerners viewed these events and that the factor that ultimately made consensus impossible was slavery itself. By 1861, no nationally accepted solution to the dilemma of slavery in the territories had emerged, no political party existed as a national entity, and politicians from both North and South had come to believe that those on the other side had subverted the American political tradition.

John Barrymore's Richard III and Hamlet, first seen in New York during the 1919-20 and 1922-3 seasons, stand as high-water marks of 20th-century Shakespearean interpretation. In this 1997 book, Morrison reconstructs these historic performances through analysis of production preparation, audience response, reviews, and memoirs.