In the Wake of War: Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America

by Andrew F. Lang

Book Overview

The Civil War era marked the dawn of American wars of military occupation, inaugurating a tradition that persisted through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and that continues to the present. In the Wake of War traces how volunteer and even professional soldiers found themselves tasked with the unprecedented project of wartime and peacetime military occupation, initiating a national debate about the changing nature of American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807176311
• ISBN13: 9780807176313
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"