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Barbarians and brothers : Anglo-American warfare, 1500-1865 / Wayne E. Lee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, Wayne E., 1965-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Escalation (Military science).
- Limited war.
- Violence.
- War (Philosophy).
- War and society--Great Britain--History.
- War and society.
- War and society--United States--History.
- Great Britain--History, Military--1485-1603.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--History, Military--1603-1714.
- United States--History, Military--To 1900.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786613046451
- 9780199831920
- 0199831920
- 9781283046459
- 1283046458
- 9780199830633
- 0199830630
- OCLC:
- 711698113
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