Wayne E Lee

Barbarians and Brothers

Anglo-American Warfare, 1500-1865

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Produktbeschreibung

Barbarians and Brothers presents a searching re-examination of early modern English and American warfare, focusing on the most important conflicts in the creation of the American republic: against the Irish in the 1500s, the English Civil War, the colonial Anglo-Indian wars, the American Revolution, and the American Civil War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780199737918
• ISBN-10: 0199737916
• Artikelnr.: 32727697

Autorenporträt

Wayne E. Lee is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Lee served in the U.S. Army from 1987 to 1992.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Part 1: Barbarians and Subjects: The Perfect Storm of Wartime
Violence in Sixteenth-Century Ireland
* Chapter 1 Sir Henry Sidney and the Mutiny at Clonmel, 1569
* Chapter 2 The Earls of Essex, 1575 and 1599
* Part 2: Codes, Military Culture, and Clubmen in the English Civil War
* Chapter 3 Sir William Waller, 1644
* Chapter 4 The Clubmen, 1645
* Part 3: Peace Chiefs and Blood Revenge: Native American Warfare
* Chapter 5 Wingina, Ralph Lane, and the Roanoke Colony of 1586
* Chapter 6 Old Brims and Chipacasi, 1725
* Part 4: Gentility and Atrocity: The Continental Army and the American
Revolution
* Chapter 7 "One Bold Stroke": Washington in Pennsylvania, 1777-78
* Chapter 8 "Malice Enough in Our Hearts": Sullivan and the Iroquois,
1779
* Conclusion: Limited War and Hard War in the American Civil War