Screen LibraryThe Oxford handbook of the American Civil War /
"This volume integrates the military and social histories of the American Civil War in its chapter organization. Its contributors use War and Society methods: a holistic approach to understanding war and its consequences that incorporates the topics and techniques of a variety of historical sub...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2021] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Oxford handbooks]
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| Summary: |
"This volume integrates the military and social histories of the American Civil War in its chapter organization. Its contributors use War and Society methods: a holistic approach to understanding war and its consequences that incorporates the topics and techniques of a variety of historical sub-fields. Each chapter narrates a military campaign embedded in its strategic, political, and social context. Authors explore the consequences of a military campaign for the people who lived in its path and provide analysis of how an army's presence reverberated throughout society in its region of operation. The volume yields a number of important insights about the impact of military campaigns, including the scale of movement, deportation, and depopulation among civilians; how the refugee experience and military action shaped emancipation as a process; the extent of guerrilla warfare; resistance to Federal authority in the Great Plains and the southwest; locations of localized total war; the implementation of military conscription in the Confederacy; a campaign's consequences for cities, rural areas, and the natural environment; the synergy between war and politics. Chapters consider the role of weather, topography, logistics, and engineering in the conduct of military campaigns"-- |
| Item Description: | Series from book jacket. |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 675 pages : maps ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780190903053 0190903058 |
| Index Number: | E470 |
| CLC: | K712.43-62 |
| Call Number: | K712.43-62/O984 |