[PDF.95eh] Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War (UnCivil Wars Ser.)

Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War (UnCivil Wars Ser.)

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 | #373476 in Books |  University of Georgia Press |  2012-05-15 |  2012-05-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.90 x6.00l,1.05 | File type: PDF | 400 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Sobering Look at War.|By G. Kincaid|The Civil War was by far the most destructive war in United States history. Nelson’s book is about that destruction, the process of ruination and the resulting ruins. Nelson examines ruination in ways that are new. It’s almost as though she has a camera suspended in the air where the central scene is a battlefield. The camera| ||An important new contribution to nineteenth-century cultural history, environmental history, Civil War history, and American studies scholarship. Among the book’s many strengths are its interdisciplinary approach, showing a sophisticated understanding o

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...

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