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But in An Environmental History of the Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2020), Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver weave a far richer story, combining military and environmental history to forge a comprehensive new narrative of the war’s significance and impact.
Jun 2, 2020 · Timothy Silver is a co-author of a new book that explores how the war altered relationships between Americans and nature. He discusses the environmental factors that influenced military operations, battles, and armies, such as disease, weather, animals, and death.
Dec 2, 2020 · Timothy Silver is a professor of history at Appalachian State University and co-author of "An Environmental History of the Civil War". He also wrote "Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains" and other books on environmental history.
Timothy Silver, an environmental historian, and Judkin Browning, a military and social historian, turn that lens on the most studied episode in American history: the Civil War. Both soldiers and civilians struggled against weather, disease, and food shortages.
Timothy Silver sets "all human actions" in the colonial Southeast within a "larger framework of ecological interaction." (195) Before contact with Europeans, he argues, Amerindians sustained themselves by manipulating the woodlands to their advantage, altering the landscape without despoiling its resources. The notion
Timothy Silver is professor emeritus of history at Appalachian State University, author of Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains, and coauthor of An Environmental History of the Civil War.
judkin browning and timothy silver Nature and Human Nature Environmental Influences on the Union’s Failed Peninsula Campaign, 1862 Scholars have long tried to explain why Union general George McClellan’s cam-paign to capture Richmond, Virginia, in the summer of 1862 failed. With the excep -
