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Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War

byMegan Kate Nelson

Megan Kate Nelson uses Ruin Nation to investigate destruction and the American Civil War through a carefully framed historical account. The narrative identifies the people, decisions, and pressures that shaped the subject, then places those developments within the wider field of history. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. Readers finish with a sharper understanding of the subject and why its consequences still deserve attention. Historical context and individual experience remain equally important to the book's explanation.

Publisher

University of Georgia Press

Publication date

2012

Format

Print edition

Pages

332

ISBN

9780820342511