War upon the land: military strategy and the transformation of southern landscapes during the American Civil War
Lisa M. Brady
- Resource Type:
- E-Book
- Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2012]
- Copyright:
- ©2012
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- 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.
- 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.
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- Languages:
- English
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- Item content: English
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- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-177) and index.
Description based on print version record. - Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Digital Characteristics:
- text file
- Call Numbers:
- E468.9 .B694 2012eb
- ISBNs:
- 9780820343839
0820343838
9780820329857 [Invalid]
0820329851 [Invalid]
9780820342498 [Invalid]
0820342491 [Invalid] - OCLC Numbers:
- 784960272
- Other Control Numbers:
- EBC3039101 (source: MiAaPQ)
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