My sense that the "Civil War" need not be understood as the series of battles that occurred between 1861 and 1865 also resonates with scholarship that argues, in the foreign relations context, for a more sophisticated understanding of military engagements and their domestic impact. I'll direct our readers to Mary Dudziak's forthcoming book, War Time: An Idea, Is History, and Its Consequences, which observes that "America has been engaged in some form of ongoing overseas armed conflict for over a century." "Meanwhile," she argues, "policy makers and the American public continue to view wars as exceptional events that eventually give way to normal peace times." You can view Dudziak's recent talk re-conceptualizing wartime and connecting it to the work of the distinguished historian, John Hope Franklin, at a lecture that she gave at Duke University, where she is the John Hope Franklin Visiting Professor of Law, here.
Monday, December 19, 2011
More on the "Long Civil War"
My sense that the "Civil War" need not be understood as the series of battles that occurred between 1861 and 1865 also resonates with scholarship that argues, in the foreign relations context, for a more sophisticated understanding of military engagements and their domestic impact. I'll direct our readers to Mary Dudziak's forthcoming book, War Time: An Idea, Is History, and Its Consequences, which observes that "America has been engaged in some form of ongoing overseas armed conflict for over a century." "Meanwhile," she argues, "policy makers and the American public continue to view wars as exceptional events that eventually give way to normal peace times." You can view Dudziak's recent talk re-conceptualizing wartime and connecting it to the work of the distinguished historian, John Hope Franklin, at a lecture that she gave at Duke University, where she is the John Hope Franklin Visiting Professor of Law, here.