Barbarians and Brothers

Anglo-American Warfare, 1500-1865

AvWayne E. Lee

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

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The most important conflicts in the founding of the English colonies and the American republic were fought against enemies either totally outside of their society or within it: barbarians or brothers. In Barbarians and Brothers, historian Wayne Lee presents a searching exploration of early modern English and American warfare, looking at such conflicts as the sixteenth-century wars in Ireland, the English Civil War, the colonial Anglo-Indian wars, the American Revolution, and the American Civil War. Lee discusses these conflicts through compelling campaign narratives, exploring the lives and fears of soldiers as well as the strategies of their commanders, while showing how their collective choices determined the nature of wartime violence. In the end, the repeated experience of wars with barbarians or brothers created an American culture of war that demands absolute solutions: enemies are either to be incorporated or rejected, included or excluded. And that determination plays a major role in defining the violence used against them. Even within such absolute goals, however, Lee points to the ways that war continued to be defined by both violence and restraint. He offers a multi-faceted account of three centuries of Anglo-American warfare, revealing how a variety of factors either fueled or curbed the violence directed towards an enemy.

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-04-21
Mått:157 x 239 x 33 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780199737918

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Wayne E. Lee is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Lee served in the U.S. Army from 1987 to 1992.

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In Barbarians and Brothers, Wayne Lee has taken on a daunting challenge -- nothing less than a history of over three and a hald centuries of Anglo-American warfare. He succeeds admirably, and the resulting work makes significant contributions, especially in the fields of early American and military history... Lee's work is informed by the larger overall trend toward anthropological, ethnographical approaches to violence. The conclusions rest on sound research conducted in archives on both sides of the Atlantic, and the extensive notes demonstrate Lee's familiarity with wide-ranging literature on violence and warfare in divergent cultural contexts... The book excels are connecting military affairs to larger societal concerns at almost every point... Lee has produced a fine work that should receive wide scholarship.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction ; Part 1: Barbarians and Subjects: The Perfect Storm of Wartime Violence in Sixteenth-Century Ireland ; Chapter 1 Sir Henry Sidney and the Mutiny at Clonmel, 1569 ; Chapter 2 The Earls of Essex, 1575 and 1599 ; Part 2: Codes, Military Culture, and Clubmen in the English Civil War ; Chapter 3 Sir William Waller, 1644 ; Chapter 4 The Clubmen, 1645 ; Part 3: Peace Chiefs and Blood Revenge: Native American Warfare ; Chapter 5 Wingina, Ralph Lane, and the Roanoke Colony of 1586 ; Chapter 6 Old Brims and Chipacasi, 1725 ; Part 4: Gentility and Atrocity: The Continental Army and the American Revolution ; Chapter 7 "One Bold Stroke": Washington in Pennsylvania, 1777-78 ; Chapter 8 "Malice Enough in Our Hearts": Sullivan and the Iroquois, 1779 ; Conclusion: Limited War and Hard War in the American Civil War