Chapter ID: CBB943411511

Walking, Running, and Marching into an Environmental History of the Civil War (2015)

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Environmental historians often start with the obvious: How do people create livelihoods for themselves? Where do they live, and what do they eat? How do they get from one place to another, and what do they do along the way (and how do movements of organisms from one place to another change those places)? As a field, it has also had deep roots in the last question—and especially in the history of walking—as a way to travel, as a means of experiencing nature, as a mediating activity between us and the environment. Accounts and analyses of walking, like...

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Authors & Contributors
Brady, Lisa M.
Parak, Gisela
John C. Inscoe
Drake, Brian
Kenneth W. Noe
Johnson, Timothy
Concepts
Nature
Environmentalism
Environment
Science and society
Environmental history
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
United States
Appalachian region (North America)
Institutions
United States. National Park Service
American Geographical Society
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