Ruin Nation - Destruction and the American Civil War - Paperback - 2012

During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers bodies were transformed into dead heaps of ruins, novel sights in the southern landscape. This is the first book to bring together environmental and cultural histories to consider the evocative power of ruination as an imagined state, an act of destruction, and a process of change.

Year of publication: 2012
Pagination: 400 pages, illustrations
Format: Paperback