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UNINA9910460084403321 |
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Lee Wayne E. <1965-> |
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Titolo |
Barbarians and brothers [[electronic resource] ] : Anglo-American warfare, 1500-1865 / / Wayne E. Lee |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-04645-8 |
9786613046451 |
0-19-983063-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (353 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Escalation (Military science) |
Limited war |
Violence |
War (Philosophy) |
War and society - Great Britain - History |
War and society - United States - History |
Electronic books. |
Great Britain History, Military 1485-1603 |
Great Britain History, Military 1603-1714 |
United States History, Military To 1900 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES ON STYLE; INTRODUCTION; PART I: BARBARIANS AND SUBJECTS: THE PERFECT STORM OF WARTIME VIOLENCE IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND; PART II: COMPETING FOR THE PEOPLE: CODES, MILITARY CULTURE, AND CLUBMEN IN THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR; PART III: PEACE CHIEFS AND BLOOD REVENGE: NATIVE AMERICAN WARFARE; PART IV: GENTILITY AND ATROCITY: THE CONTINENTAL ARMY AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION; Conclusion: Limited War and Hard War in the American Civil War; ABBREVIATIONS; NOTES; INDEX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The most important conflicts in the founding of the English colonies and the American republic were fought against enemies either totally |
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outside of their society or within it: barbarians or brothers. In this work, Wayne E. Lee presents a searching exploration of early modern English and American warfare, looking at the sixteenth-century wars in Ireland, the English Civil War, the colonial Anglo-Indian wars, the American Revolution, and the American Civil War. Crucial to the level of violence in each of these conflicts was the perception of the enemy as either a brother (a fellow countryman) o |
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