toward an environmental history of the Civil War /
edited by Brian Allen Drake
vi, 250 pages ;
23 cm
UnCivil Wars
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Environmental aspects
United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Influence