Unredeemed Land - An Environmental History of Civil War Emancipation in Cotton South

Unredeemed Land examines the ways the Civil War and the emancipation of the slaves reconfigured the South's natural landscape, revealing the environmental constraints that shaped the rural South's transition to capitalism during the late nineteenth century.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction


• Chapter 1: Deferring Crisis


• Chapter 2: Revealing Vulnerabilities


• Chapter 3: Intensifying Production


• Chapter 4: Accelerating Change


• Chapter 5: Facing Limits


• Conclusion


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Erin Stewart Mauldin is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg. She is the co-editor of A Companion to Global Environmental History.

Summary

Unredeemed Land examines the ways the Civil War and the emancipation of the slaves reconfigured the South's natural landscape, revealing the environmental constraints that shaped the rural South's transition to capitalism during the late nineteenth century.

Additional text

[Amidst] the sesquicentennial of the Civil War ... Mauldin still found fresh soil to till ... in considering the impact of the war on land usage. ... She does a commendable job humanizing a potentially dry topic; her prose is lively, and she combines personalized accounts and moving journal entries with obligatory census data and government records. ... Essential.

Product details

• Authors: Mauldin, Erin Stewart Mauldin, Erin Stewart (Assistant Professor of Hist Mauldin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9780190865177
• ISBN: 978-0-19-086517-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Ethnic Studies, military history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, c 1500 onwards to present day, Archaeology, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Battles & campaigns, Slavery & abolition of slavery, History and Archaeology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, c 1860 to c 1869, Civil wars, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity, Specific wars and military campaigns