Word: semmel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...activity on so many campuses that handling the voluminous files called for a team effort by the New York staff. Contributing Editors Judson Gooding, Marshall Burchard and Frederic Golden collaborated with Editors John Elson and Robert Shnayerson on the cover story and "sidebars." They were assisted by Researchers Jane Semmel, Erika Sanchez, Patricia Gordon and Patricia Beckert. For Gooding, the assignment had a sense of familiarity. As San Francisco bureau chief in 1967, he covered the Oakland antidraft demonstrations; last year he was in Paris reporting on "les jours...
JAMAICAN BLOOD & VICTORIAN CONSCIENCE by Bernard Semmel. 188 pages. Houghton M/ffl/n...
...colonial subjects, now feel entitled to view with horror the spectacle of Birmingham police turning loose police dogs and fire hoses on protesting Negroes. But in the flush days of Queen Victoria's empire, the British conscience was not always so sensitive. In this lively book, Historian Bernard Semmel recounts the brutal re action of the British authorities when a handful of Jamaicans revolted...
...imperialists won a Pyrrhic victory. The fight over Eyre, writes Semmel, had pricked the conscience of the nation. It had launched a dialogue between the supporters of empire and the supporters of democracy that would culminate eventually in a victory for democracy-and in Great Britain's liquidation of the world's greatest empire...