Description: In the Wake of War: Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America In the Wake of War: Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America by Andrew F. Lang The book features a unique look at the Civil War, plenty of charm and insight, hard to find title, will look great in your collection. In the Mexican-American War and the Civil War, citizen-soldiers confronted the complicated challenges of invading, occupying, and subduing hostile peoples and nations. Drawing on firsthand accounts from soldiers in United States occupation forces, Andrew F. Lang shows that many white volunteers equated their martial responsibilities with those of standing armies, which were viewed as corrupting institutions hostile to the republican military ethos. With the advent of emancipation came the enlistment of African American troops into Union armies, facilitating an extraordinary change in how provisional soldiers interpreted military occupation. Black soldiers, many of whom had been formerly enslaved, garrisoned regions defeated by Union armies and embraced occupation as a tool for destabilizing the South’s long-standing racial hierarchy. Ultimately, Lang argues, traditional fears about the army’s role in peacetime society, grounded in suspicions of standing military forces and heated by a growing ambivalence about racial equality, governed the trials of Reconstruction. Focusing on how U.S. soldiers―white and black, volunteer and regular―enacted and critiqued their unprecedented duties behind the lines during the Civil War era, In the Wake of War reveals the dynamic, often problematic conditions of military occupation. Copyright 2017 Pages: 317 pages Publisher: LSU Press The book measures approx. 9 by 6 inches. The hardcover is nice, dustjacket with gentle wear and rubbing. The spine end is good with light wear. The boards and corners are in good shape. The hinges and binding are tight and strong. The pages are good with some minor wear, book is nice. Shipping weight is 4 pounds Inventory: 1223RD168
Price: 17.49 USD
Location: Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania
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Topic: Civil War (1861-65)
Subject: Military & War
