In the Wake of War - Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America

Winner of the Society of Civil War Historians' Tom Watson Brown Book Award

About the author

Andrew F. Lang is associate professor of history at Mississippi State University.

Summary

The Civil War era marked the dawn of American wars of military occupation. In the Wake of War traces how volunteer and professional soldiers found themselves tasked with the unprecedented project of wartime and peacetime military occupation, initiating a national debate about the changing nature of American military practice.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Lang, Andrew F Lang, Andrew F. Lang
• Publisher: Louisiana state univ pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780807167069
• ISBN: 978-0-8071-6706-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimens; Conflicting Worlds: New Dimens; Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous