On the Road to Total War: The American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification, 1861–1871 (Publications of the German Historical Institute)

Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 6/5/1997
EAN 9780521560719, ISBN10: 0521560713

Hardcover, 720 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 4.4 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

On the Road to Total War attempts to trace the roots and development of total industrialised warfare, a concept which terrorises citizens and soldiers alike. Mass mobilisation of people and resources and the growth of nationalism led to this totalisation of war in nineteenth-century industrialised nations. In this collection of essays, international scholars focus on the social, political, economic, and cultural impact of the American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification.

1. Introduction Stig Forster and Jörg Nagler
Part I. Basic Questions
2. Was the Civil War a Total War? Mark E. Neely Jr
3. The American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification
the problem of comparison Carl Degler
Part II. Nationalism, Leadership, and War
4. Confederate identity and the will to fight Richard E. Beringer
5. Unionism and Abolition
political mobilization in the North Hans L. Trefousse
6. The Prussian triangle of leadership in the face of people's war
a reassessment of the conflict between Bismarck and Moltke, 1870–71 Stig Forster
7. Union generalship, political leadership, and Total War strategy Edward Hagerman
Part III. Mobilization and Warfare
8. The Civil War armies
creation, mobilization, and development Herman M. Hattaway
9. African-Americans and the mobilization for the Civil War Joseph T. Glatthaar
10. The Civil War economy
a modern view Stanley L. Engerman and J. Matthew Gallman
11. Industry and warfare in Prussia Ulrich Wengenroth
12. The Prussian army from reform to war Manfred Messerschmidt
13. French mobilization in 1870 William Serman
14. From limited war to Total War in America James M. McPherson
15. Remarks on the preconditions to waging war in Prussia-Germany, 1866–1871 Wilhelm Deist
Part IV. The Home Front
16. Loyalty and dissent
the home front in the American Civil War Jorg Nagler
17. 'The better angels of our nature'
Lincoln, propaganda, and public opinion in the North during the Civil War Philip S. Paludan
18. The permanence of internal war
the Prussian state and its opponents, 1870–71 Alf Ludtke
19. French public opinion in 1870–71 and the emergence of Total War Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau
20. Women and war in the Confederacy Donna Rebecca D. Krug
21. German patriotic women's work in war and peacetime, 1864–1890 Jean H. Quataert
Part V. The Reality of War
22. Tactics, trenches, and men in the Civil War Earl J. Hess
23. Daily life at the front and the concept of Total War Thomas Rohkramer
24. At the nihilist edge
reflections on guerrilla warfare during the American Civil War Michael Fellman
25. The wars against Paris Robert Tombs
26. 'Our prison system, supposing we had any'
the Confederate and Union prison systems Reid Mitchell
27. French prisoners of war in Germany, 1870–71 Manfred Botzenhart
Part VI. The Legacy
28. The influence of the German Wars of Unification upon the United States Jay Luvaas
29. From Civil War to world power
perceptions and realities, 1865–1914 Richard N. Current
30. The myth of Gambetta and the 'people's war' in Germany and France, 1871–1914 Gerd Krumeich
31. War memorials
a legacy of Total War? Annette Becker
Conclusions
32. The American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification
some parting shots Roger Chickering
Index.