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Barbarians and Brothers - Anglo-American Warfare, 1500-1865 (Hardcover)
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Barbarians and Brothers - Anglo-American Warfare, 1500-1865 (Hardcover)
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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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