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War upon the land : military strategy and the transformation of southern landscapes during the American Civil War /
In this first book-length environmental history of the American Civil War, Lisa M. Brady argues that ideas about nature and the environment were central to the development and success of Union military strategy. From the start of the war, both sides had to contend with forces of nature, even as they...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
©2012.
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| Series: | Environmental history and the American South.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : nineteenth-century ideas of nature and their role in Civil War strategy
- Hostile territory : Union operations along the Lower Mississippi, 1862-1863
- Broken country : Union campaigns at and around Vicksburg, 1863
- Ravaged ground : Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, 1864
- Devoured land : Sherman's Georgia and Carolina campaigns, 1864-1865
- Conclusion : making a desert and calling it peace.