Format:
vi, 250 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
23 cm
ISBN:
9780820347141
,
0820347140
,
9780820347158
,
0820347159
Series Statement:
UnCivil Wars
Content:
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
Note:
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)
,
Introduction: new fields of battle: nature, environmental history, and the Civil War
,
"The difficulties and seductions of the desert": landscapes of war in 1861 New Mexico
,
Yancey County goes to war: a case study of people and nature on home front and battlefield, 1861-1865
,
"The man who has nothing to lose": environmental impacts on Civil War straggling in 1862 Virginia
,
Stumps in the wilderness
,
"The strength of the hills": representations of Appalachian wilderness as Civil War refuge
,
Nature as friction: integrating Clausewitz into environmental histories of the Civil War
,
War is hell, so have a chew: the persistence of agroenvironmental ideas in the Civil War Piedmont
,
Reconstructing the soil: emancipation and the roots of chemical-dependent agriculture in America
,
Walking, running, and marching into an environmental history of the Civil War
,
Epilogue: "waving the muddy shirt"
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780820347752
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Sezessionskrieg
;
Sezessionskrieg
;
Umwelt
;
Geschichte
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=43353
