The Calculus of Violence
Auteur: Aaron Charles Sheehan-Dean
Nombre de pages: 465 pages
ISBN: 0674916301, 9780674916302
Edition: Harvard University Press
Date de publication: Harvard University Press
Description: Discarding tidy abstractions about the conduct of war, Aaron Sheehan-Dean shows that the notoriously bloody US Civil War could have been much worse. Despite agonizing debates over Just War and careful differentiation among victims, Americans could not avoid living with the contradictions inherent in a conflict that was both violent and restrained.--