The blue, the gray, and the green toward an environmental history of the Civil War
Introduction: new fields of battle: nature, environmental history, and the Civil War / Brian Allen Drake -- Fateful lightning: the significance of weather and climate to Civil War history / Kenneth W. Noe -- "The difficulties and seductions of the desert": landscapes of war in 1861 New Mex...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Athens, London
The University of Georgia Press
2015
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| Schriftenreihe: | UnCivil Wars
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction: new fields of battle: nature, environmental history, and the Civil War / Brian Allen Drake -- Fateful lightning: the significance of weather and climate to Civil War history / Kenneth W. Noe -- "The difficulties and seductions of the desert": landscapes of war in 1861 New Mexico / Megan Kate Nelson -- Yancey County goes to war: a case study of people and nature on home front and battlefield, 1861-1865 / Timothy Silver -- "The man who has nothing to lose": environmental impacts on Civil War straggling in 1862 Virginia / Kathryn Shively Meier -- Stumps in the wilderness / Aaron Sachs -- "The strength of the hills": representations of Appalachian wilderness as Civil War refuge / John C. Inscoe -- Nature as friction: integrating Clausewitz into environmental histories of the Civil War / Lisa M. Brady -- War is hell, so have a chew: the persistence of agroenvironmental ideas in the Civil War Piedmont / Drew A. Swanson -- Reconstructing the soil: emancipation and the roots of chemical-dependent agriculture in America / Timothy Johnson -- Walking, running, and marching into an environmental history of the Civil War / Mart A. Stewart -- Epilogue: "waving the muddy shirt" / Paul S. Sutter |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index "the book's chapters began life as papers for the third annual UnCivil Wars conference, held in Athens, Georgia, in October 2011" (acknowledgments) |
| Beschreibung: | vi, 250 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780820347141 978-0-8203-4714-1 0820347140 0-8203-4714-0 9780820347158 978-0-8203-4715-8 0820347159 0-8203-4715-9 9780820347752 |