{"product_id":"wars-civil-and-great-the-american-experience-in-the-civil-war-and-world-war-i-hardback-9780700635375","title":"Wars Civil and Great; The American Experience in the Civil War and World War I (Hardback) 9780700635375","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWars Civil and Great\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe American Experience in the Civil War and World War I\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid J. Silbey (Edited by), Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780700635375\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 11 July 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.272 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Finally! We needed a book just like this, and now we have it. The fascinating essays in this collection make a compelling case for some striking similarities between the American Civil War and the Great War. The two conflicts no longer seem distant from one another, but instead part of the same era. No matter your historical interests, you will learn something new from the juxtapositions made in this unique book.\"—\u003cb\u003eLorien Foote\u003c\/b\u003e, Patricia and Bookman Peters Professor of History, Texas A\u0026amp;M University, and author of \u003ci\u003eRites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Silbey and Wongsrichanalai provide readers with an important juxtaposition of the Civil War and the Great War—both essential for understanding America’s past and present. Besides their own splendid reflections, the editors also gathered a cadre of scholars who draw fascinating parallels between the two wars, anchored by Steven Trout’s thoughtful afterword.\"—\u003cb\u003eEdward A. GutiÉrrez\u003c\/b\u003e, director of Center for Military History and Grand Strategy, Hillsdale College, and author of \u003ci\u003eDoughboys on the Great War: How American Soldiers Viewed Their Military Experience\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough the Civil War and the Great War were fought only fifty years apart, the perceived time between these two cataclysmic events seems far longer in popular American memory: the Civil War was the centerpiece of the nineteenth century and lies deep in America’s past whereas World War I was a modern prelude to World War II, a conflict still in living memory. \u003ci\u003eWars Civil and Great\u003c\/i\u003e breaks down these barriers of time and memory and shows how close and how similar these two conflicts really were in the American experience. Setting both wars in the long nineteenth century, the authors of this volume reveal how the Civil War casts its long shadow over the events of World War I. President Wilson looked to Lincoln during the Great War for guidance on national leadership at wartime; General John J. Pershing remembered the Civil War of his childhood and sought to learn lessons from Grant and McClellan; and the doughboys on European battlefields held firm to the culture of honor and duty that had inspired their forefathers to take up arms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this volume, every author as an expert in their own field addresses four overarching questions: What legacy did the Civil War leave? Did the World War I generation interpret the lessons of the Civil War, and if so, how? How did the Great War change the lessons from the Civil War era? And finally, how did both wars contribute to the modernization of the United States?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWars Civil and Great\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the striking similarities between the two wars by analyzing how the Civil War affected the American reaction to and experience in the Great War while attending to enlisted men, military officers, and political leaders. Other chapters address the environmental effects of both wars, the wars’ impacts on medicine and mental trauma, and the experiences of black American soldiers during both wars in fighting for a country that treated them so terribly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume, while at first appearing as a disparate pairing of conflicts, deftly opens a new window into the past and establishes an illuminating paradigm in the two wars of the long nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeword, \u003ci\u003eJennifer D. Keene\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: Remembrance of Wars Past: The American Civil War and the Great War at Their Sesquicentennial and Centennial Anniversaries, \u003ci\u003eDavid J. Silbey and Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. “\u003cbr\u003eOn Each Side There Emerged a Supreme Commander”\u003cbr\u003e: Ulysses S. Grant and John J. Pershing (and Douglas Haig), 1861-1918, \u003ci\u003eDavid J. Silbey\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and Dying for One’\u003cbr\u003es Country, \u003ci\u003eBrian Dirck\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. African American Soldiers: The Struggle for Equality through Service in the Civil War and Great War, \u003ci\u003eDebra Sheffer\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. “\u003cbr\u003eBy Word or Act Oppose the Cause of the United States”\u003cbr\u003e: Loyalty in the Civil War-Era and Great War-Era America, \u003ci\u003eKanisorn Wongsrichanalai\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. War and the Shaping of American Medicine: The American Civil War and the Great War, \u003ci\u003eDale Smith and Shauna Devine\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Healing the Unseen Wounds of War: Treating Mental Trauma in the Civil War and the Great War, \u003ci\u003eKathleen Logothetis Thompson\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. Blood and Soil: Americans and Environment in the Trenches of Petersburg and the Western Front, \u003ci\u003eBrian Allen Drake\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. “\u003cbr\u003eWe Owe Everything to Their Valor and Sacrifice”\u003cbr\u003e: Ulysses S. Grant’\u003cbr\u003es and John J. 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