@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt7s56t.10,
 ISBN = {9780691135182},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7s56t.10},
 abstract = {The leap from the ancient world to the modern is a big one. The rise and overthrow of the medieval religious order, the Greco-Roman rebirth, the Newtonian scientific revolution, and the discovery of political liberty resulted in a new and special focus on the sovereign individual. The Rights of Man—wholly foreign to the ancient world—undermined the power of kings, challenged historical standards of status and nobility, and required a new moral conception of the nature and purpose of government. These developments, along with the concomitant rise in weapons technology, were bound to have important effects on the aims},
 bookauthor = {JOHN DAVID LEWIS},
 booktitle = {Nothing Less than Victory: Decisive Wars and the Lessons of History},
 pages = {141--183},
 publisher = {Princeton University Press},
 title = {“The Hard Hand of War”: Sherman’s March through the American South, AD 1864–1865},
 year = {2010}
}