Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War by Nelson, Megan Kate
Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War by Nelson, Megan Kate

Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War

During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers' bodies were transformed into "dead heaps of ruins,"...
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Author: Megan Kate Nelson
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Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War by Nelson, Megan Kate

Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War

$85.01
Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War by Nelson, Megan Kate

Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War

$85.01
Author: Megan Kate Nelson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers' bodies were transformed into "dead heaps of ruins," novel sights in the southern landscape. How did this happen, and why? And what did Americans--northern and southern, black and white, male and female--make of this proliferation of ruins? Ruin Nation is the first book to bring together environmental and cultural histories to consider the evocative power of ruination as an imagined state, an act of destruction, and a process of change.

Megan Kate Nelson examines the narratives and images that Americans produced as they confronted the war's destructiveness. Architectural ruins--cities and houses--dominated the stories that soldiers and civilians told about the "savage" behavior of men and the invasions of domestic privacy. The ruins of living things--trees and bodies--also provoked discussion and debate. People who witnessed forests and men being blown apart were plagued by anxieties about the impact of wartime technologies on nature and on individual identities.

The obliteration of cities, houses, trees, and men was a shared experience. Nelson shows that this is one of the ironies of the war's ruination--in a time of the most extreme national divisiveness people found common ground as they considered the war's costs. And yet, very few of these ruins still exist, suggesting that the destructive practices that dominated the experiences of Americans during the Civil War have been erased from our national consciousness.

Author: Megan Kate Nelson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 05/15/2012
Pages: 354
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780820342511


Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2012

About the Author
MEGAN KATE NELSON is a writer, historian, and cultural critic. Based in Lincoln, Massachusetts, she has written about Civil War and western history for a number of national publications. Nelson also writes a regular column on Civil War popular culture, "Stereoscope," for Civil War Monitor, and her blog, Historista examines the "surprising and weird ways that people engage with history in everyday life." Nelson is also the author of Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War (Georgia). She has taught at Texas Tech University; California State University, Fullerton; Harvard University; and Brown University.
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