The Blue, the Gray, and the Green : Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War /
The Blue, the Gray, and the Green is one of only a handful of books to apply an environmental history approach to the Civil War. This book explores how nature-disease, climate, flora and fauna, and other factors-affected the war and also how the war shaped Americans' perceptions, understanding,...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
[2014]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION. New Fields of Battle: Nature, Environmental History, and the Civil War; ONE. Fateful Lightning: The Significance of Weather and Climate to Civil War History; TWO. "The Difficulties and Seductions of the Desert": Landscapes of War in 1861 New Mexico; THREE. Yancey County Goes to War: A Case Study of People and Nature on Home Front and Battlefield, 1861-1865; FOUR. "The Man Who Has Nothing to Lose": Environmental impacts on Civil War Straggling in 1862 Virginia; FIVE. Stumps in the Wilderness.
- SIX. "The Strength of the Hills": Representations of Appalachian Wilderness as Civil War RefugeSEVEN. Nature as Friction: Integrating Clausewitz into Environmental Histories of the Civil War; EIGHT. War is Hell, So Have a Chew: The Persistence of Agroenvironmental ideas in the Civil War Piedmont; NINE. Reconstructing the Soil: Emancipation and the Roots of Chemical-Dependent Agriculture in America; TEN. Walking, Running, and Marching into an Environmental History of the Civil War; EPILOGUE. "Waving the Muddy Shirt"; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S.
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