Barbarians and brothers : Anglo-American warfare, 1500-1865 / / Wayne E. Lee
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| Autore: |
Lee Wayne E. <1965->
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| Titolo: |
Barbarians and brothers : Anglo-American warfare, 1500-1865 / / Wayne E. Lee
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (353 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 355.020941/0903 |
| Soggetto topico: | Escalation (Military science) |
| Limited war | |
| Violence | |
| War (Philosophy) | |
| War and society - Great Britain - History | |
| War and society - United States - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain History, Military 1485-1603 |
| Great Britain History, Military 1603-1714 | |
| United States History, Military To 1900 | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The most important conflicts in the founding of the English colonies and the American republic were fought against enemies either totally 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Barbarians and brothers |
| ISBN: | 0-19-983192-0 |
| 1-283-04645-8 | |
| 9786613046451 | |
| 0-19-983063-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910816401403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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