TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sheehan-Dean,Aaron Charles
TI  - The calculus of violence: how Americans fought the Civil War 
SN  - 9780674916302
AV  - E468 .C353 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Violence
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction: The puzzle of the Civil War --; Who can make war? --; The rising of the people --; Soldiers and civilians --; Kindling the fires of liberty --; Unnecessary violence --; Discipline, order, and justice --; Children of God --; The importance of states --; Conclusion: The double-edged sword; 2; b
N2  - Discarding tidy abstractions about the conduct of war, Aaron Sheehan-Dean shows that the notoriously bloody US Civil War could have been much worse. Despite agonizing debates over Just War and careful differentiation among victims, Americans could not avoid living with the contradictions inherent in a conflict that was both violent and restrained.--
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