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Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War

by Megan Kate Nelson

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

Publisher

University of Georgia Press

Publication date

2012

Format

Print edition

Pages

332

ISBN

9780820342511