David Silkenat (Senior Lecture Senior Lecturer in American History

Scars on the Land

An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South

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Produktbeschreibung

Scars on the Land is the first comprehensive history of American slavery to examine how the environment fundamentally formed enslaved people's lives and how slavery remade the Southern landscape.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 165mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 536g
• ISBN-13: 9780197564226
• ISBN-10: 0197564224
• Artikelnr.: 63198913

Autorenporträt

David Silkenat is a Senior Lecturer in American History at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of several books, including Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the American Civil War, a finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 An Exhausted Soil
Chapter 2 An Animal Without Hope
Chapter 3 Dragged Out by the Roots
Chapter 4 Breeches in the Levee
Chapter 5 A Southern Cyclone
Chapter 6 An Inhospitable Refuge
Chapter 7 Landscape of Freedom
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index