Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South

ISBN-13: 9780197564226 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 272 str.

David Silkenat

Recenzje

With compelling prose, a convincing re-reading of primary and secondary sources, and an effective organization, this book offers an excellent overview of the complicated cause-and-effect relationships between human enslavement and environmental change in disparate spaces over a long period of time...The book's most important accomplishment is that within each setting, readers encounter the natural world through the eyes, hands, and labour of enslaved people.

O autorze

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.