Ruin Nation Destruction and the American Civil War

Name: Ruin Nation Destruction and the American Civil War
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ISBN: 9780820342511

ISBN-10: 0820342513

ISBN-13: 9780820342511

Edition: 2012

Authors: Megan Kate Nelson

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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 Nationis 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.Megan Kate Nelson examines the narratives and images that Americans produced as they confronted the war’s destructiveness. Architectural ruins—cities and houses—dominated the stories that soldiers and…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 5/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction. American Ruins



Our Own Pompeii: Ruined Cities



Lone Chimneys: Domestic Ruins



Battle Logs: Ruined Forests



Empty Sleeves and Government Legs: The Ruins of Men


Conclusion. The Ruins of History


Notes


Bibliography


Index