Garden of Ruins - J. Matthew Ward, T. Michael Parrish

Garden of Ruins

Occupied Louisiana in the Civil War
Buch | Hardcover
322 Seiten
2024
Louisiana State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8071-8139-3 (ISBN)
65,85 inkl. MwSt
An insightful social and military history of Civil War-era Louisiana. The book reveals the Civil War, state-building efforts, and democracy itself as contingent processes through which Louisianans shaped the world around them. It also illustrates how military forces and civilians discovered unique ways to wield and hold power.
J. Matthew Ward's Garden of Ruins serves as an insightful social and military history of Civil War–era Louisiana. Partially occupied by Union forces starting in the spring of 1862, the Confederate state experienced the initial attempts of the U.S. Army to create a comprehensive occupation structure through military actions, social regulations, the destabilization of slavery, and the formation of a complex bureaucracy. Skirmishes between Union soldiers and white civilians supportive of the Confederate cause multiplied throughout this period, eventually turning occupation into a war on local households and culture. In unoccupied regions of the state, Confederate forces and their noncombatant allies likewise sought to patrol allegiance, leading to widespread conflict with those they deemed disloyal.

Ward suggests that social stability during wartime, and ultimately victory itself, emerged from the capacity of military officials to secure their territory, governing powers, and nonmilitary populations. Garden of Ruins reveals the Civil War, state-building efforts, and democracy itself as contingent processes through which Louisianans shaped the world around them. It also illustrates how military forces and civilians discovered unique ways to wield and hold power during and immediately after the conflict.

J. Matthew Ward is assistant professor of history at Quincy University.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
Zusatzinfo 16 halftones, 4 maps
Verlagsort Baton Rouge
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 272 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10 0-8071-8139-0 / 0807181390
ISBN-13 978-0-8071-8139-3 / 9780807181393
Zustand Neuware
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt?
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
Europa 1848/49 und der Kampf für eine neue Welt

von Christopher Clark

Buch | Hardcover (2023)
DVA (Verlag)
48,00