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War upon the land : military strategy and the transformation of southern landscapes during the American Civil War / Lisa M. Brady.
- Title
- War upon the land : military strategy and the transformation of southern landscapes during the American Civil War / Lisa M. Brady.
- Author
- Brady, Lisa M., 1971-
- Publication
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2012.
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Details
- Description
- xix, 187 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Environmental history and the American South
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Environmental history and the American South.
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- Philosophy of nature > United States > History > 19th century
- Strategy > History > 19th century
- Philosophie de la nature > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle
- Stratégie > Histoire > 19e siècle
- Military campaigns
- Philosophy of nature
- Strategy
- Sezessionskrieg 1861-1865
- Strategie
- Umweltschaden
- United States > History > Environmental aspects. > Civil War, 1861-1865
- Confederate States of America > History, Military
- United States > History > Campaigns. > Civil War, 1861-1865
- États-Unis > Histoire > Aspect de l'environnement. > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)
- États-Unis > Histoire > Campagnes et batailles. > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)
- United States
- United States > Confederate States of America
- USA > Südstaaten
- Genre/Form
- Electronic books.
- History
- Military history
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-177) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780820329857
- 0820329851
- 9780820342498
- 0820342491
- LCCN
- 2011037559
- OCLC
- 754105606
- SCSB-12553539
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library