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Fighting means killing

por Steplyk, Jonathan M.

Publicado por : University Press of Kansas ([Lawrence, Kansas]) Detalles físicos: x, 242 páginas ilustraciones ISBN:9780700626281.

Tema(s): Guerra -- Aspectos psicológicos -- Historia -- Siglo XIX | Soldados -- Historia -- Estados Unidos | Estados Unidos -- Historia -- Guerra civil, 1861-1865 | Estados Unidos -- Historia -- Aspectos morales y éticos

Año : 2018

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Tipo de ítem	Ubicación actual	Colección	Signatura	Copia número	Estado	Fecha de vencimiento	Código de barras	Reserva de ítems
Libro	Claustro 2do piso	Libro	973.71 S837f (Navegar estantería)	Ej.1	Disponible		100158859

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Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1. The Things They Carried: Influences on Civil War Soldiers and Killing -- 2. Seeing the Elephant: Killing and the Face of Battle -- 3. Good Execution: The Language of Killing -- 4. With Bayonet and Clubbed Musket: Killing in Hand-to-Hand Combat -- 5. Hunters of Men: Sharpshooters and Killing -- 6. Murder and Mercy: The Extremes of Killing -- 7. Killing in Black and White: Race, Combat, and Hate -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- An illustration gallery follows page 141.

"War means fighting, and fighting means killing." Confederate cavalry commander Nathan Bedford Forrest famously declared. The Civil War was fundamentally a matter of Americans killing Americans. This undeniable reality is what Jonathan Steplyk explores in Fighting Means Killing, the first book-length study of Union and Confederate soldiers' attitudes toward, and experiences of, killing in the Civil War. Drawing upon letters, diaries, and postwar reminiscences, Steplyk examines what soldiers and veterans thought about killing before, during, and after the war. How did these soldiers view sharpshooters? How about hand-to-hand combat? What language did they use to describe killing in combat? What cultural and societal factors influenced their attitudes? And what was the impact of race in battlefield atrocities and bitter clashes between white Confederates and black Federals? These are the questions that Steplyk seeks to answer in Fighting Means Killing, a work that bridges the gap between military and social history--and that shifts the focus on the tragedy of the Civil War from fighting and dying for cause and country to fighting and killing. "--