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The blue, the gray, and the green : toward an environmental history of the Civil War / edited by Brian Allen Drake ; contributors, Lisa M. Brady [and eleven others].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Uncivil wars.
- Uncivil Wars
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Environmental aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (262 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Blue, the Gray, and the Green is one of only a handful of books to apply an environmental history approach to the Civil War. This book explores how nature-disease, climate, flora and fauna, and other factors-affected the war and also how the war shaped Americans' perceptions, understanding, and use of nature. The contributors use a wide range of approaches that serve as a valuable template for future environmental histories of the conflict. In his introduction, Brian Allen Drake describes the sparse body of environmental history literature related to the Civil War and lays out a blueprint
- Contents:
- Introduction: new fields of battle: nature, environmental history, and the Civil War / Brian Allen Drake
- Fateful lightning: the significance of weather and climate to Civil War history / Kenneth W. Noe
- "The difficulties and seductions of the desert": landscapes of war in 1861 New Mexico / Megan Kate Nelson
- Yancey County goes to war: a case study of people and nature on home front and battlefield, 1861-1865 / Timothy Silver
- "The man who has nothing to lose": environmental impacts on Civil War straggling in 1862 Virginia / Kathryn Shively Meier
- Stumps in the wilderness / Aaron Sachs
- "The strength of the hills": representations of Appalachian wilderness as Civil War refuge / John C. Inscoe
- Nature as friction: integrating Clausewitz into environmental histories of the Civil War / Lisa M. Brady
- War is hell, so have a chew: the persistence of agroenvironmental ideas in the Civil War Piedmont / Drew A. Swanson
- Reconstructing the soil: emancipation and the roots of chemical-dependent agriculture in America / Timothy Johnson
- Walking, running, and marching into an environmental history of the Civil War / Mart A. Stewart
- Epilogue: "waving the muddy shirt" / Paul S. Sutter.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8203-4715-9
- 0-8203-4775-2
- OCLC:
- 898770323
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