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Barbarians and Brothers - Anglo-American Warfare, 1500-1865 (Paperback)
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Barbarians and Brothers - Anglo-American Warfare, 1500-1865 (Paperback)
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The most important conflicts in the founding of the English
colonies and the American republic were fought against enemies
either totally outside of their society or within it: barbarians or
brothers. In this work, Wayne E. Lee presents a searching
exploration of early modern English and American warfare, looking
at the sixteenth-century wars in Ireland, the English Civil War,
the colonial Anglo-Indian wars, the American Revolution, and the
American Civil War. Crucial to the level of violence in each of
these conflicts was the perception of the enemy as either a brother
(a fellow countryman) or a barbarian. But Lee goes beyond issues of
ethnicity and race to explore how culture, strategy, and logistics
also determined the nature of the fighting. Each conflict
contributed to the development of American attitudes toward war.
The brutal nature of English warfare in Ireland helped shape the
military methods the English employed in North America, just as the
legacy of the English Civil War cautioned American colonists about
the need to restrain soldiers' behavior. Nonetheless,
Anglo-Americans waged war against Indians with terrifying violence,
in part because Native Americans' system of restraints on warfare
diverged from European traditions. The Americans then struggled
during the Revolution to reconcile these two different trends of
restraint and violence when fighting various enemies. Through
compelling campaign narratives, Lee explores the lives and fears of
soldiers, as well as the strategies of their commanders, while
showing how their collective choices determined the nature of
wartime violence. In the end, the repeated experience of wars with
barbarians or brothers created an American culture of war that
demanded absolute solutions: enemies were either to be incorporated
or rejected. And that determination played a major role in defining
the violence used against them.
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