On the Road to Total War: The American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification, 1861–1871
, by Edited by Stig Förster , Jorg NaglerNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780521521192 | 052152119X
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 8/22/2002
On the Road to Total War is a collection of essays that attempts to trace the roots and development of total industrialized warfare (which terrorizes citizens and soliders alike). International scholars focus on the social, political, economic, and cultural aspects and on the societal impacts of the American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification. Mass mobilization of people and resources and growing nationalism led to this totalization of war in nineteenth-century industrialized nations.