Transforming Civil War Prisons

Lincoln, Lieber, and the Politics of Captivity

Paul J. Springer, Glenn Robins (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

184 Seiten

2014
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-83337-0 (ISBN)

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During the Civil War, 410,000 people were held as prisoners of war on both sides. With resources strained by the unprecedented number of prisoners, conditions in overcrowded prison camps were dismal, and the death toll across Confederate and Union prisons reached 56,000 by the end of the war. In an attempt to improve prison conditions, President Lincoln issued General Orders 100, which would become the basis for future attempts to define the rights of prisoners, including the Geneva conventions. Meanwhile, stories of horrific prison experiences fueled political agendas on both sides, and would define the memory of the war, as each region worked aggressively to defend its prison record and to honor its own POWs.

Robins and Springer examine the experience, culture, and politics of captivity, including war crimes, disease, and the use of former prison sites as locations of historical memory. Transforming Civil War Prisons introduces students to an underappreciated yet crucial aspect of waging war and shows how the legacy of Civil War prisons remains with us today.

Paul J. Springer is Associate Professor of Comparative Military Studies at Air Command and Staff College. He is the author of America's Captives: The History of US Prisoner of War Policy. Glenn Robins is Professor of History at Georgia Southwestern State University. He is the editor of They Have Left Us Here to Die: The Civil War POW Diary of Sgt. Lyle G. Adair, 111th US Colored Infantry.

1. Prisoner of War Policy and Practice. 2. The Captivity Experience. 3. The Culture of Captivity. 4. The Politics of Captivity. 5. Honoring Civil War Captives. 6. Civil War Prisons in History and Memory. Documents.

Reihe/Serie	Critical Moments in American History
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	270 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-415-83337-X / 041583337X
ISBN-13	978-0-415-83337-0 / 9780415833370
Zustand	Neuware