Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era

ISBN-13: 9780197601044 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 352 str.

Frances M. Clarke; Rebecca Jo Plant

Recenzje

This remarkable, groundbreaking history takes a subject of enormous contemporary interest—the thousands of youths who serve in armed conflicts as soldiers, sex slaves, human shields, spies, and suicide bombers—and reveals with vivid detail the extent to which the Union and Confederate armies relied on the young not simply as buglers, drummers, messengers, scouts, or hospital orderlies, but as combatants. This book not only recovers juvenile soldiers' wartime experience but also shows how their participation in the conflict intensified American society's age consciousness, diminished parental authority, transformed attitudes toward the young, enhanced teenagers' autonomy, and expanded the authority of the federal government.

O autorze

Frances M. Clarke is Associate Professor of History at the University of Sydney. She is the author of War Stories: Suffering and Sacrifice in the Civil War North. Rebecca Jo Plant is Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America.