Ruin Nation Destruction and the American Civil War |
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Author:
| Nelson, Megan Kate |
ISBN: | 978-0-8203-4251-1 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2012 |
Publisher: | University of Georgia Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $39.00 |
Book Description:
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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. This 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.
During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers' bodies were transformed into "dead heaps of ruins," novel sights in the southern landscape. This 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.