The Transition to Fossil Fuel and Uncivil Wars in America, 1820-1865
Fueling the Fires
The Transition to Fossil Fuel and Uncivil Wars in America, 1820-1865
Fueling the Fires
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Description
This book explores the condition of the US population and landscape as it changed, ca. 1800-1860, and argues that the turn to coal after 1820 improved that condition by relieving pressures on land and forests. The author investigates how by adopting coal, American settlers in the North advanced more sustainable forestry and agricultural practices that enabled them to feed the growing population, developed domestic industries, ended their battle with slaveholders for control of American lands, helped free the enslaved, and promoted economic development for a free people in the United States. He further examines long-term environmental-social change in America and re-evaluates the Civil War as a product of an ongoing battle over land-use systems.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Ecological Crisis and Settler Expansion
Chapter 2: Settler Expansion and Indigenous Resistance
Chapter 3: Conflicts with Foreign Powers
Chapter 4: Land of the Free or Home of the Slave?
Chapter 5: Escalating Violence and the State
Chapter 6: Coal Reshapes the Eco-Social Landscape
Chapter 7: unCivil War
Product details
| Published | Jun 10 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9798216491309 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Series | Environment and Society |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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