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

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 state,...

By Megan Nelson
Series: UnCivil Wars Ser.
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: University of Georgia Press (May 15, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0820342513
ISBN-13: 978-0820342511
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
Amazon Rank: 907558
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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

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