Civil War Torpedoes and the Global Development of Landmine Warfare

Earl J. Hess (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2023
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-7427-2 (ISBN)

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Civil War Torpedoes examines the history of landmine development and use in the Civil War and beyond. The author organizes his scholarship around three thematic elements: tactics, technology, and morality. Hess uses multiple archival sources to tell a compelling narrative, one that stresses not only the tactical and technological challenges faced by torpedo pioneers but one that also considers the moral stigma most contemporaries attached to this new weapon of war.

Hess holds the Stewart W. McClelland Chair in History at LMU, where he has taught since 1989. Hess has been a student of Civil War history since he was a teenager, growing up in rural Missouri. He completed his B.A. and M.A. degrees in history at Southeast Missouri State University. His Ph.D. in American Studies, with a concentration in history, was awarded by Purdue University in 1986. He has taught at a number of institutions, including the University of Georgia, Texas Tech University, and the University of Arkansas. He is the author of more than a dozen books on Civil War military history, the latest of which is Into the Crater – The Mine Attack at Petersburg. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2002.

Erscheinungsdatum	25.01.2023
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 237 mm
Gewicht	621 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-5381-7427-8 / 1538174278
ISBN-13	978-1-5381-7427-2 / 9781538174272
Zustand	Neuware