Weirding the War : Stories from the Civil War's Ragged Edges

Stephen Berry

ISBN 10: 0820334138 / ISBN 13: 9780820334134

Editore: Longleaf On Behalf Of Univ Of Georgia Press Okt 2011, 2011

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Neuware - '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.

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• Titolo: Weirding the War : Stories from the Civil War's Ragged Edges
• Editore: Longleaf On Behalf Of Univ Of Georgia Press Okt 2011
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0820334138
• ISBN 13: 9780820334134
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 229 L x 152 A x 25 P (millimetri) 229 millimetri di larghezza per 152 millimetri di altezza per 25 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 725 grammi

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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.

Informazioni sull'autore

STEPHEN BERRY is professor of history at the University of Georgia. His books include Weirding the War: Stories from the Civil War's Ragged Edges (Georgia); 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). He lives and writes in Athens, Georgia.