Bibliograph

War stuff, the struggle for human and environmental resources in the American Civil War, Joan E. Cashin

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War stuff, the struggle for human and environmental resources in the American Civil War, Joan E. Cashin

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

War stuff

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1089758621

Responsibility statement

Joan E. Cashin

Series statement

Cambridge studies on the American SouthCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

the struggle for human and environmental resources in the American Civil War

Summary

In this path-breaking work on the American Civil War, Joan E. Cashin explores the struggle between armies and civilians over the human and material resources necessary to wage war. This war 'stuff' included the skills of white Southern civilians, as well as such material resources as food, timber, and housing. At first, civilians were willing to help Confederate or Union forces, but the war took such a toll that all civilians, regardless of politics, began focusing on their own survival. Both armies took whatever they needed from human beings and the material world, which eventually destroyed the region's ability to wage war. In this fierce contest between civilians and armies, the civilian population lost. Cashin draws on a wide range of documents, as well as the perspectives of environmental history and material culture studies. This book provides an entirely new perspective on the war era.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Old South; 2. People; 3. Sustenance; 4. Timber; 5. Habitat; 6. Breakdown; 7. 1865 and after

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