The Grammar of Civil War

A Mexican Case Study, 1857–61

Will Fowler (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

332 Seiten

2022
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
9781496230461 (ISBN)

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Unlike wars between nations, wherein the population generally comes together to defend its borders and is united by a common national goal, civil wars tear countries apart, divide families, and turn neighbors against each other. Civil wars are a form of self-harm in which a country’s people seek redemption through self-destruction, punishing or severing those parts that are seen to have made the nation ill. And yet civil wars-with their characteristically appalling violence-remain chillingly common, defying the notion that they are somehow an aberration.

In The Grammar of Civil War Will Fowler examines the origin, process, and outcome of civil war. Using the Mexican Civil War of 1857–61 (or the War of the Reform, the political and military conflict that erupted between the competing liberal and conservative visions of Mexico’s future), Fowler seeks to understand how civil wars come about and, when they do, how they unfold and why. By outlining the grammatical principles that underpin a new framework for the study of civil war, Fowler stresses what is essential for one to take place and explains how, once it has erupted, it can be expected to develop and end, according to the syntax, morphology, and meanings that characterize and help understand the grammar of civil war generally.

Will Fowler is a professor of Latin American studies at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and an international member of the Mexican Academy of History. His books include Independent Mexico: The Pronunciamiento in the Age of Santa Anna, 1821–1858 (Nebraska, 2016), Santa Anna of Mexico (Bison Books, 2007), and Tornel and Santa Anna: The Writer and the Caudillo, Mexico, 1795–1853, among others.

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. A New Framework for the Study of Civil War
2. The Mexican Civil War of 1857–61: An Overview
3. The Grammar of Origin in Context: The Causes of the 1857–61 Mexican Civil War
4. The Grammar of Process in Context: Mexico’s Descent into Hell, 1857–61
5. The Grammar of Outcome in Context: The Resolution and Memory of the 1861 Liberal Victory
Conclusion: The Grammar of Civil War
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.05.2022
Zusatzinfo	11 photographs, 4 maps, 3 tables, index
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-13	9781496230461 / 9781496230461
Zustand	Neuware