The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War
Aaron Sheehan-Dean
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.
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Ano:
2018
Editora:
Harvard University Press
Idioma:
english
Páginas:
481
ISBN 10:
0674984226
ISBN 13:
9780674984226
Arquivo:
PDF, 2.49 MB
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english, 2018