The calculus of violence: how Americans fought the Civil War

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...

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1. Verfasser: Sheehan-Dean, Aaron Charles (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England Harvard University Press 2018
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Zusammenfassung: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....
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:465 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9780674984226

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