| Description |
xix, 187 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Environmental history and the American South
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Environmental history and the American South.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-177) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
"War upon the land is not merely an environmental history of the war ... Instead, Brady's is a book about how the Civil War engaged with, and forever altered, a suite of nineteenth-century American ideas about nature ... Thus [it] examines the place of wilderness in the history of the Civil War, and as importantly, the place of the Civil War in the history of wilderness"--Foreword. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Environmental aspects.
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Philosophy of nature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Philosophy of nature. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Strategy -- History -- 19th century.
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Strategy. |
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Confederate States of America -- History, Military.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.
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American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) |
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Armed Forces -- Environmental aspects. |
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Military campaigns. |
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United States -- Confederate States of America. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Military history.
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| ISBN |
0820329851 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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0820342491 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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9780820329857 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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9780820342498 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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