Ruin nation : destruction and the American Civil War / Megan Kate Nelson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nelson, Megan Kate, 1972-

Series:

Uncivil wars

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Psychological aspects.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Destruction and pillage.

United States.

Destruction and pillage.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.

Social aspects.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Psychological aspects.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Casualties.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Influence.

Physical Description:

xvii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2012]

Summary:

During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers' bodies were transformed into "dead heaps of ruins," novel sights in the southern landscape. How did this happen, and why? And what did Americans-northern and southern, black and white, male and female-make of this proliferation of ruins? Ruin Nation is the first book to bring together environmental and cultural histories to consider the evocative power of ruination as an imagined state, an act of destruction, and a process of change. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Our Own Pompeii: Ruined Cities 10

2 Lone Chimneys: Domestic Ruins 61

3 Battle Logs: Ruined Forests 103

4 Empty Sleeves and Government Legs: The Ruins of Men 160.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780820333977

0820333972

9780820342511

0820342513

OCLC:

755904582