| America Goes to War: The Civil War and Its Meaning in American Culture Contributor(s): Catton, Bruce (Author) |
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ISBN: 0819560162 ISBN-13: 9780819560162 Publisher: Wesleyan University Press OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 1992 Annotation: The Civil War was the first of world's really modern wars. That is what gives it its terrible significance. For the great fact about modern war, greater even than its frightful destructiveness and its calculated, carefully-applied inhumanity, is that it never goes where the men who start it intend that it shall go. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - History | Military - General |
| Dewey: 973.7 |
| LCCN: 58013602 |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 5.34" W x 8.18" (0.36 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Civil War |
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| Publisher Description: A fascinating study of the first modern war and its effect on American Culture. |