Uncommonly savage : civil war and remembrance in Spain and the United States / Paul D. Escott.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (279 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813048932 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Uncommonly savage : civil war and remembrance in Spain and the United States.DDC classification:
  • 946.081 23
LOC classification:
  • DP269 .E723 2014eb
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Contents:
Background -- Ideology and memory: the continuing battles -- The past and political evolution -- Reconciliation: an end to civil war? -- Economic change and the transformation of cultural landscapes.
Summary: Escott explores the contentious issue of American Civil War remembrance by comparing it to another national civil war--the Spanish Civil War. He explores the large-scale social and emotional wounds these conflicts left, the new power structures, the "spoils' of war, the future the winning sides created for each country, and various ways later generations revisited the moral and political aspects of the conflict.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Background -- Ideology and memory: the continuing battles -- The past and political evolution -- Reconciliation: an end to civil war? -- Economic change and the transformation of cultural landscapes.

Escott explores the contentious issue of American Civil War remembrance by comparing it to another national civil war--the Spanish Civil War. He explores the large-scale social and emotional wounds these conflicts left, the new power structures, the "spoils' of war, the future the winning sides created for each country, and various ways later generations revisited the moral and political aspects of the conflict.

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