Название: Barbarians and Brothers: Anglo-American Warfare, 1500-1865
Автор: Wayne E. Lee
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199737916
Год: 2011
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 352
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 7,4 МБ
Язык: Английский
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 Barbarians and Brothers, historian Wayne Lee presents a searching exploration of early modern English and American warfare, looking at such conflicts as the sixteenth-century wars in Ireland, the English Civil War, the colonial Anglo-Indian wars, the American Revolution, and the American Civil War. Lee discusses these conflicts through compelling campaign narratives, exploring the lives and fears of soldiers as well as the strategies of their commanders, while showing how their collective choices determined the nature of wartime violence. In the end, the repeated experience of wars with barbarians or brothers created an American culture of war that demands absolute solutions: enemies are either to be incorporated or rejected, included or excluded.