Weirding the War (eBook)

Stories from the Civil War's Ragged Edges

Stephen Berry (Herausgeber)

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2011
352 Seiten
University of Georgia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8203-4185-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Each contributor uses a seemingly unusual story, incident, or phenomenon to cast new light on the nature of the war itself. Collectively the essays remind us that war is always about damage, even at its most heroic and even when certain people and things deserve to be damaged. Here, in short, is war.

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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 contributor uses a seemingly unusual story, incident, or phenomenon to cast new light on the nature of the war itself. Collectively the essays remind us that war is always about damage, even at its most heroic and even when certain people and things deserve to be damaged.Here then is not only the grandness of the Civil War but its more than occasional littleness. Here are those who profited by the war and those who lost by it-and not just those who lost all save their honor, but those who lost their honor too. Here are the cowards, the coxcombs, the belles, the deserters, and the scavengers who hung back and so survived, even thrived. Here are dark topics like torture, hunger, and amputation. Here, in short, is war.

Autor

STEPHEN BERRY is an associate professor of history at the University of Georgia. His books include House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, a Family Divided by War; All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South, and Princes of Cotton: Four Diaries of Young Men in the South, 1848–1860 (Georgia).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.10.2011
• Reihe/Serie: UnCivil Wars Ser.
• Reihe/Serie: UnCivil Wars Ser.
• Co-Autor: Anya Jabour, Barton A. Myers, Brian Craig Miller, Daniel E. Sutherland, Diane Sommerville, Emory Thomas, Joan E. Cashin, Kenneth Noe, LeeAnn Whites, Lesley J. Gordon, Megan Kate Nelson, Michael DeGruccio, Michael Fellman, Paul Anderson, Peter S. Carmichael, Rodney J. Steward, Steven E. Nash, Stephen Berry, Andrew Slap, Amy Murrell Taylor
• Verlagsort: Athens
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 0-8203-4185-1 / 0820341851
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-4185-9 / 9780820341859