Uncommonly Savage
Civil War and Remembrance in Spain and the United States
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University Press of Florida
Published:30th Apr '19
Should be back in stock very soon
Spain and the United States both experienced extremely bloody and divisive civil wars that left social and emotional wounds, many of which still endure today. In Uncommonly Savage, award-winning historian Paul Escott considers the impact of internecine violence on memory and ideology, politics, and process of reconciliation. He also examines debates over reparation or moral recognition, the rise of truth and reconciliation commissions, and the legal, psychological, and religious aspects of modern international law regarding amnesty.
In crisp prose, Escott successfully shows how inertia ruled in both postwar societies, but also how change eroded continuity."" - Choice
""An engaging success. . . . This book, well-written and supported by solid evidence, contributes to comparative military history, the history of memory and commemoration, and the historiographies of both the American Civil War and Spanish Civil War."" - Civil War History
""A nice discussion of the similarities of the two civil wars [and] an excellent discussion of five great dissimilarities between the outcome."" - Journal of America's Military Past
""Breaks new ground. A uniquely comparative work that looks at the two civil wars in diachronic comparative perspective."" - Journal of American History
""An intellectual tour de force….[that] presents a compelling interpretation of what happens in the South after the Civil War."" - Civil War Book Review
""While we might think of the American Civil War as unique in a number of ways. . . Escott presents a corrective against this pervasive sense of exceptionalism."" - North Carolina Historical Review
ISBN: 9780813064338
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 435g
278 pages