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Weirding the War
Stories from the Civil War's Ragged Edges
E-bok, 2011
582 kr
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It is well that war is so terrible'' Robert E. Lee reportedly said, ''or we would grow too fond of it.'' The essays collected here make the case that we have grown too fond of it, and therefore we must make the war terrible again. Taking a ''freakonomics'' approach to Civil War studies, each …
Blue, the Gray, and the Green
Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War
E-bok, 2015
563 kr
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The Blue, the Gray, and the Green is one of only a handful of books to apply an environmental history approach to the Civil War. This book explores how nature—disease, climate, flora and fauna, and other factors—affected the war and also how the war shaped Americans’ perceptions, understanding, and …
Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory
How Civil War Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West
Av Matthew Christopher Hulbert
E-bok, 2016
1954 kr
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The Civil War tends to be remembered as a vast sequence of battles, with a turning point at Gettysburg and a culmination at Appomattox. But in the guerrilla theater, the conflict was a vast sequence of home invasions, local traumas, and social degeneration that did not necessarily end in 1865. This …
Household War
How Americans Lived and Fought the Civil War
Av Lisa Tendrich Frank, LeeAnn Whites
E-bok, 2020
1730 kr
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Household War restores the centrality of households to the American Civil War. The essays in the volume complicate the standard distinctions between battlefront and homefront, soldier and civilian, and men and women. From this vantage point, they look at the interplay of family and politics, …
