{"product_id":"barbarians-and-brothers-anglo-american-warfare-1500-1865-paperback","title":"Barbarians and Brothers: Anglo-American Warfare, 1500-1865 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWayne E. Lee\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCrucial 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWayne E. Lee \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Lee served in the U.S. Army from 1987 to 1992. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eCrowds and Soldiers in Revolutionary North Carolina: The Culture of Violence in Riot and War \u003c\/em\u003eand the general editor of the \u003cem\u003eWarfare and Culture \u003c\/em\u003eseries\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 356\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 11, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51780687364384,"sku":"9780199376452","price":78.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/657084d981d77b9c9456f86bf1b100c1.webp?v=1780534422","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/barbarians-and-brothers-anglo-american-warfare-1500-1865-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}