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Author Browning, Judkin, author.

Title An environmental history of the Civil War / Judkin Browning & Timothy Silver.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  973.7 B821e 2020    ---  Available
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Description 261 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Gender group: gdr Men lcdgt
Nationality/regional group: nat Americans lcdgt
Occupational/field of activity group: occ University and college faculty members lcdgt
Series Civil War America
Civil War America (Series)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-250) and index.
Contents Introduction: More than the mud march -- Sickness, Spring-Winter 1861 -- Weather, Winter 1861-Fall 1862 -- Food, Fall 1862-Summer 1863 -- Animals, Summer 1863-Spring 1864 -- Death and disability, Spring 1864-Fall 1864 -- Terrain, Fall 1864-Spring 1865 -- Epilogue: An environmental legacy.
Summary "This sweeping history recognizes that the Civil War was not just a military conflict but also a moment of profound transformation in Americans' relationship to the natural world. To be sure, environmental factors such as topography and weather powerfully shaped the outcomes of battles and campaigns, and the war could not have been fought without the horses, cattle, and other animals that were essential to both armies. But here Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver weave a far richer story, combining military and environmental history to forge a comprehensive new narrative of the war's significance and impact. As they reveal, the conflict created a new disease environment by fostering the spread of microbes among vulnerable soldiers, civilians, and animals; led to large-scale modifications of the landscape across several states; sparked new thinking about the human relationship to the natural world; and demanded a reckoning with disability and death on an ecological scale. And as the guns fell silent, the change continued; Browning and Silver show how the war influenced the future of weather forecasting, veterinary medicine, the birth of the conservation movement, and the establishment of the first national parks"--Provided by publisher
Subject Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Environmental aspects.
United States -- Environmental conditions -- History -- 19th century.
Ecology. (OCoLC)fst00901476
Nature -- Effect of human beings on. (OCoLC)fst01034564
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) (OCoLC)fst01351658
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
History.
Added Author Silver, Timothy, 1955- author.
ISBN 9781469655383 (hardcover)
1469655381 (hardcover)
9781469655390 (electronic book)

 
    
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