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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 · I was pleased to spend some time recently with a new book by historians Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver. Drs. Browning and Silver are professors at Appalachian State University, where Browning is professor of military history and Silver is professor of environmental history.
Dec 2, 2020 · BOONE, N.C. — Appalachian State University’s Dr. Judkin Browning and Dr. Timothy Silver, both professors in the Department of History, have co-authored a book that reevaluates the Civil War from a perspective focused on the environment.
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 -
