10 Top civil war books like An Environmental History of the Civil War by Judkin Browning

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An Environmental History of the Civil War

By: Judkin Browning

4.29

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

This sweeping new history recognizes that the Civil War was not just a military conflict but also a…

If you liked the civil war plot in An Environmental History of the Civil War by Judkin Browning , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South by Stephanie McCurry

1. Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South

By: Stephanie McCurry

3.99

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

The story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by wh… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • war
  • nonfiction
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2. Celia, A Slave

By: Melton A. McLaurin

3.52

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Compelling. . . a shocking tale. . . a remarkable account. . . . McLaurin succeeds admirably in us… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. The Civil War: A Narrative

By: Shelby Foote

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • war
  • nonfiction
Cover of This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust

4. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

By: Drew Gilpin Faust

3.93

Format: 316 pages,

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • war
  • nonfiction

5. Gettysburg--The First Day

By: Harry W. Pfanz

3.33

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

For good reason, the second and third days of the Battle of Gettysburg have received the lion's sha… read more

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6. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

By: Ilan Pappé

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more

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7. Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War

By: Brian Matthew Jordan

4.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly wo… read more

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8. Gettysburg

By: Stephen W. Sears

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A masterful, single-volume history of the Civil War's greatest campaign. Drawing on original sourc… read more

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9. The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War

By: None

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rall… read more

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10. Silent Spring

By: Edward O. Wilson , Rachel Carson , Linda Lear

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in… read more

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11. War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865

By: James M. McPherson

4.14

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because the represented only a small per… read more

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12. The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

By: Daniel James Brown

3.59

Format: 464 pages,

In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Il… read more

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13. The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South

By: Bruce Levine

3.53

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this major new history of the Civil War, Bruce Levine tells the riveting story of how that confl… read more

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14. The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

By: Douglas Brunt

4.23

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

This instant New York Times bestselling “dynamic detective story” (The New York Times) reveals the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
  • science
"But the prevailing and indelible lesson, learned through traumatic personal experience, was his understanding of the family’s security. War and industrial innovation could destroy the life a family h…"

-Douglas Brunt, The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

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15. The Watchmaker’s Hand (Lincoln Rhyme, #16)

By: Jeffery Deaver

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

When a New York City construction crane mysteriously collapses, causing mass destruction and killin… read more

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16. It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs

By: Mary Louise Kelly

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Operating Instructions meets Glennon Doyle in this new book by famed NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly… read more

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  • nonfiction
"In his book "Being Mortal", the surgeon Atul Gawande accurately describes the joy that flows from being good at your work. 'You become a doctor for what you imagine to be the satisfaction of the work…"

-Mary Louise Kelly, It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs

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17. Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory

By: Claudio Saunt

4.23

Format: 396 pages, Hardcover

In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East t… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation

By: Thavolia Glymph

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Historians of the Civil War often speak of "wars within a war--the military fight, wartime struggle… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • war
  • nonfiction
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19. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

By: Cal Flyn

4.20

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more

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  • nature
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

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20. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

By: Tiya Miles

3.95

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"

-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

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21. The Wealth of Shadows

By: Graham Moore

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An ordinary man joins a secret mission to bring down the Nazi war machine by crashing their economy… read more

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22. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

By: Jon Meacham

4.46

Format: 676 pages, Hardcover

The life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln, exploring why and how Lincoln confronted secession… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • civil war
Cover of The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner

23. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

By: Eric Foner

4.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes tha… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land by Tony Horwitz

24. Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land

By: Tony Horwitz

3.98

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Beloved best-selling author Tony Horwitz retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's epic journey across the A… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • civil war
"Bowlin was previously divorced and had learned a thing or two. "Set of titties or a college education-buy either of those for your old lady and she's done," he said, "She doesn't need you anymore."

-Tony Horwitz, Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land

"The only person of color in any of the photographs was a black waiter. Blacks were otherwise barred from the dance hall, as were locals of Mexican descent. In the Texas of that day, laws and customs …"

-Tony Horwitz, Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land

"There was another, much clearer survival of freethinking ways. Sisterdale had never had a church, and Joe said his family had rarely spoken of religion except to dismiss it. "Dad would tell us, 'Dat'…"

-Tony Horwitz, Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land

"the inscription at its base put San Jacinto on a par with Waterloo and other exalted fights. The defeat of Santa Anna, the "self-styled 'Napoleon of the West,"" led to the annexation of Texas, war wi…"

-Tony Horwitz, Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land

Cover of Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity by Donald Yacovone

25. Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity

By: Donald Yacovone

4.09

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A powerful exploration of the past and present arc of America’s white supremacy—from the country’s … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. An Environmental History of the Civil War

By: Judkin Browning

4.29

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

This sweeping new history recognizes that the Civil War was not just a military conflict but also a… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • war
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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27. The Populist Vision

By: Charles Postel

3.63

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

In the late nineteenth century, monumental technological innovations like the telegraph and steam p… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North by Sarah Handley-Cousins

28. Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North

By: Sarah Handley-Cousins

4.46

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is virtually synonymous with amputation. But war a… read more

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  • civil war
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Pickett's Charge: A New Look at Gettysburg's Final Attack by Phillip Thomas Tucker

29. Pickett's Charge: A New Look at Gettysburg's Final Attack

By: Phillip Thomas Tucker

3.65

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

*Main Selection of the History Book Club* The Battle of Gettysburg, the Civil War’s turning point, … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress by Eric Herschthal

30. The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress

By: Eric Herschthal

3.88

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A revealing look at how antislavery scientists and Black and white abolitionists used scientific id… read more

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  • history
Cover of The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America (Volume 1) by Jenifer L. Barclay

31. The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America (Volume 1)

By: Jenifer L. Barclay

4.49

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Exploring the disability history of slavery Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

19 Best history books like An Environmental History of the Civil War by Judkin Browning

Transform Your Habits

Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South

Stephanie McCurry

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Celia, A Slave

Melton A. McLaurin

3.52

Transform Your Habits

The Civil War: A Narrative

Shelby Foote

3.41

Transform Your Habits

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

Drew Gilpin Faust

3.93

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23 Best history books like The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America (Volume 1) by Jenifer L. Barclay

Transform Your Habits

Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas

Sally E. Hadden

3.52

Transform Your Habits

Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons

Sylviane A. Diouf

3.20

Transform Your Habits

Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive

None , Marisa J. Fuentes

4.43

Transform Your Habits

A Disability History of the United States

Kim E. Nielsen

4.40

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