Book ID: CBB001212118

War upon the Land: Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during the American Civil War (2012)

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Brady, Lisa M. (Author)


University of Georgia Press


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: xix + 187 pp.; ill.; maps
Language: English

ntroduction : 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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Review Meier, Kathryn Shively (2013) Review of "War upon the Land: Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during the American Civil War". The Journal of the Civil War Era (pp. 280-283). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Meier, Kathryn Shively
Brady, Lisa M.
John C. Inscoe
Drake, Brian
Kenneth W. Noe
Cashin, Joan E.
Journals
Environmental History
Publishers
University of Washington Press
University of North Carolina Press
University of Georgia Press
Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
Oxford University Press
Manchester University Press
Concepts
Nature
Environment
Science and society
Environmentalism
Environmental history
Science and war; science and the military
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
United States
Spokane River
South Asia
Virginia (U.S.)
France
Appalachian region (North America)
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