The Howling Storm : Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War /

"Traditional histories of the Civil War describe the conflict as a war between North and South. Kenneth Noe, following the lead of environmental historians, suggests instead that it was a war between the North and South and the weather. In "The Howling Storm: Climate, Weather, and the Amer...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Noe, Kenneth W., 1957- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Nature > Effect of human beings on > United States > History > 19th century.
United States > Environmental conditions > History > 19th century.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Environmental aspects.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Darkest Clouds: Fort Sumter to Manassas, Spring and Summer 1861
  • The Elements Are Hard to Conquer: Missouri and West Virginia, Summer 1861-Winter 1862
  • Mud Is Triumphant: On the Potomac, Summer 1861-Winter 1862
  • Blood on Ice: The Trans-Mississippi, Winter-Spring 1862
  • Noah's Day: The West, Winter 1861-62
  • A Perfect Bog: The Peninsula, Spring 1862
  • Hopeless, Starless Night: Virginia, Spring-Summer 1862
  • Most Awful Dry: Virginia, July-November 1862
  • Drought Almost Unprecedented: The West, May-October 1862
  • A Fruitless Winter Campaign: Fredericksburg, November 1862-January 1863
  • Misery: The Mississippi River Valley, September 1862-March 1863
  • Dreary: Tennessee, October 1862-April 1863
  • Nature Conspired against Us: Chancellorsville, January-May 1863
  • Unsurpassed in Inclemency: Gettysburg, May-August 1863
  • Heat and Drought: Vicksburg and Port Hudson, March-August 1863
  • A Specimen of the Four Seasons: Tennessee, May-October 1863
  • The Hardest Spell of Weather: East Tennessee, Winter 1863-1864
  • At the North Pole: Virginia, Fall 1863-Winter 1864
  • Distant Thunder: The Mississippi River Valley, Winter-Spring 1864
  • Festering in the Sun: Virginia, April-June 1864
  • This God-Forsaken Country: Virginia, June-December 1864
  • Appeal against the Thunderstorm: Georgia, February-September 1864
  • Yankee Weather: The Trans-Mississippi and the West, September-December 1864
  • Tears of Rain: The War Ends, December 1864-May 1865.

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