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Ruin Nation
Author | : Megan Kate Nelson |
Publsiher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2012-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780820343792 |
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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 Nation is 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 civilians told about the “savage” behavior of men and the invasions of domestic privacy. The ruins of living things—trees and bodies—also provoked discussion and debate. People who witnessed forests and men being blown apart were plagued by anxieties about the impact of wartime technologies on nature and on individual identities. The obliteration of cities, houses, trees, and men was a shared experience. Nelson shows that this is one of the ironies of the war’s ruination—in a time of the most extreme national divisiveness people found common ground as they considered the war’s costs. And yet, very few of these ruins still exist, suggesting that the destructive practices that dominated the experiences of Americans during the Civil War have been erased from our national consciousness.
Ruin Nation
Author | : Megan Kate Nelson |
Publsiher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780820333977 |
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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 Nation is 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 civilians told about the “savage” behavior of men and the invasions of domestic privacy. The ruins of living things—trees and bodies—also provoked discussion and debate. People who witnessed forests and men being blown apart were plagued by anxieties about the impact of wartime technologies on nature and on individual identities. The obliteration of cities, houses, trees, and men was a shared experience. Nelson shows that this is one of the ironies of the war's ruination—in a time of the most extreme national divisiveness people found common ground as they considered the war's costs. And yet, very few of these ruins still exist, suggesting that the destructive practices that dominated the experiences of Americans during the Civil War have been erased from our national consciousness.
The British Tocsin Or Proofs of National Ruin
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1795 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : BL:A0021890918 |
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The British Tocsin Or Proofs of National Ruin
Author | : British tocsin |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1795 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : UOM:39015013165769 |
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India the Source of Wealth and Ruin to the Principal Nations of Antiquity A sermon preached on the Day of Public Humiliation October 7th 1857
Author | : Saint Vincent BEECHEY |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0021774734 |
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Preliminary Report on Ruin Stabilization Southwestern National Monuments
Author | : A. E. Buchenberg |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : National parks and reserves |
ISBN | : IND:30000129996181 |
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National Repentance the only way to prevent the ruin of a sinful people a sermon on Jonah iii 4 10 preached at Kingston on Thames November 25th 1741 the day appointed for a general Fast
Author | : George WIGHTWICK (M.A.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1741 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0021752908 |
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Germany from Empire to Ruin 1913 1945
Author | : Henry Cord Meyer |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 1973-06-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781349005376 |
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