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On the road to total war, the American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification, 1861-1871, edited by Stig Förster and Jörg Nagler

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On the road to total war, the American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification, 1861-1871, edited by Stig Förster and Jörg Nagler

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eng

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non fiction

Main title

On the road to total war

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electronic resource

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824565878

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edited by Stig Förster and Jörg Nagler

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Publications of the German Historical InstituteCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

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the American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification, 1861-1871

Summary

On the Road to Total War attempts to trace the roots and development of total industrialised warfare, a concept which terrorises citizens and soldiers alike. Mass mobilisation of people and resources and the growth of nationalism led to this totalisation of war in nineteenth-century industrialised nations. In this collection of essays, international scholars focus on the social, political, economic, and cultural impact of the American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

1. Introduction / Stig Forster and Jorg Nagler -- 2. Was the Civil War a Total War? / Mark E. Neely, Jr. -- 3. The American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification: The Problem of Comparison / Carl N. Degler -- 4. Confederate Identity and the Will to Fight / Richard E. Beringer -- 5. Unionism and Abolition: Political Mobilization in the North / Hans L. Trefousse -- 6. The Prussian Triangle of Leadership in the Face of a People's War: A Reassessment of the Conflict between Bismarck and Moltke, 1870-71 / Stig Forster -- 7. Union Generalship, Political Leadership, and Total War Strategy / Edward Hagerman -- 8. The Civil War Armies: Creation, Mobilization, and Development / Herman M. Hattaway -- 9. African-Americans and the Mobilization for Civil War / Joseph T. Glatthaar -- 10. The Civil War Economy: A Modern View / Stanley L. Engerman and J. Matthew Gallman -- 11. Industry and Warfare in Prussia / Ulrich Wengenroth -- 12. The Prussian Army from Reform to War / Manfred Messerschmidt -- 13. French Mobilization in 1870 / William Serman -- 14. From Limited War to Total War in America / James M. McPherson -- 15. Remarks on the Preconditions to Waging War in Prussia-Germany, 1866-71 / Wilhelm Deist -- 16. Loyalty and Dissent: The Home Front in the American Civil War / Jorg Nagler -- 17. "The Better Angels of Our Nature": Lincoln, Propaganda, and Public Opinion in the North during the Civil War / Phillip S. Paludan -- 18. The Permanence of Internal War: The Prussian State and its Opponents, 1870-71 / Alf Ludtke -- 19. French Public Opinion in 1870-71 and the Emergence of Total War / Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau -- 20. Women and War in the Confederacy / Donna Rebecca D. Krug -- 21. German Patriotic Women's Work in War and Peace Time, 1864-90 / Jean H. Quataert -- 22. Tactics, Trenches, and Men in the Civil War / Earl J. Hess -- 23. Daily Life at the Front and the Concept of Total War / Thomas Rohkramer -- 24. At the Nihilist Edge: Reflections on Guerrilla Warfare during the American Civil War / Michael Fellman -- 25. The Wars against Paris / Robert Tombs -- 26. "Our Prison System, Supposing We Had Any": The Confederate and Union Prison Systems / Reid Mitchell -- 27. French Prisoners of War in Germany, 1870-71 / Manfred Botzenhart -- 28. The Influence of the German Wars of Unification on the United States / Jay Luvaas -- 29. From Civil War to World Power: Perceptions and Realities, 1865-1914 / Richard N. Current -- 30. The Myth of Gambetta and the "People's War" in Germany and France, 1871-1914 / Gerd Krumeich -- 31. War Memorials: A Legacy of Total War? / Annette Becker -- 32. The American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification: Some Parting Shots / Roger Chickering

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