Barbarians and brothers : Anglo-American warfare, 1500-1865 / Wayne E. Lee.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Barbarians and subjects : the perfect storm of wartime violence in sixteenth century Ireland -- Sir Henry Sidney and the mutiny at Clonmel, 1569 -- The Earls of Essex, 1575 and 1599 -- Codes, military culture, and clubmen in the English Civil War -- Sir William Waller, 1644 -- The clubmen, 1645 -- Peace chiefs and blood revenge : Native American warfare -- Wingina, Ralph Lane, and the Roanoke Colony of 1586 -- Old brims and Chipacasi, 1725 -- Gentility and atrocity : the Continental Army and the American Revolution -- "One bold stroke" : Washington in Pennsylvania, 1777-78 -- "Malice enough in our hearts" : Sullivan and the Iroquois, 1779 -- Conclusion : Limited war and hard war in the American Civil War.

The most important conflicts in the founding of the English colonies and the American republic were fought against enemies either totally outside of their society or within it: barbarians or brothers. In this work, Wayne E. Lee presents a searching exploration of early modern English and American warfare, looking at the sixteenth-century wars in Ireland, the English Civil War, the colonial Anglo-Indian wars, the American Revolution, and the American Civil War. Crucial to the level of violence in each of these conflicts was the perception of the enemy as either a brother (a fellow countryman) o.

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