Calculus of Violence - How Americans Fought the Civil War

Informationen zum Autor Aaron Sheehan-Dean is Fred C. Frey Professor of Southern Studies at Louisiana State University. His previous books include The Civil War: The Final Year Told by Those Who Lived It and Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia . He is currently editing the Cambridge History of the American Civil War . Klappentext Discarding tidy abstractions about the conduct of war, Aaron Sheehan-Dean shows that the notoriously bloody US Civil War could have been much worse. Despite agonizing debates over Just War and careful differentiation among victims, Americans could not avoid living with the contradictions inherent in a conflict that was both violent and restrained.

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• Authors: Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Aaron Charles Sheehan-Dean, Sheehan-Dean Aaron
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9780674984226
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98422-6
• No. of pages: 480
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Ethnic Studies, HISTORY / Social History, military history, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), HISTORY / Military / United States, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science, HISTORY / Military / Strategy, c 1800 to c 1900, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Battles & campaigns, Specific wars and campaigns, c 1860 to c 1869, Theory of warfare and military science, Theory of warfare & military science, Civil wars, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General