War Is Hell EISENBRAUNS Opening chapters outline the ways

Opening chapters outline the ways in which the criminal justice system can change as a result of political and historical forces

which draws on Evangelical discourses elevating the mother as the theological and moral center of the household

and how merchants counted shipwrecks to determine insurance rates

was both a professional woman and a mother in an era when these two roles could not be combined

War Is Hell EISENBRAUNS Opening chapters outline the waysFrom Napoleon to nuclear war, War Is Hell unravels the brutal rise of total war and its devastating impact on soldiers and civilians alike. General William Tecumseh Sherman said it best during the American Civil War: "War is hell" for soldiers as well as for civilians. As a pioneer and practitioner of total war, Sherman knew better than most what warfare had become by the middle of the nineteenth century, how it had become a devastating, all consuming