The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War - Aaron Sheehan-Dean - Books - Harvard University Press - 9780674984226 - November 5, 2018
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The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War


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Discarding tidy abstractions about the conduct of war, Aaron Sheehan-Dean shows that the notoriously bloody US Civil War could have been much worse. Despite agonizing debates over Just War and careful differentiation among victims, Americans could not avoid living with the contradictions inherent in a conflict that was both violent and restrained.


480 pages, 15 photos

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released November 5, 2018
ISBN13 9780674984226
Publishers Harvard University Press
Pages 480
Dimensions 162 × 241 × 35 mm   ·   876 g
Language English  

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