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Location: Birkbeck, University of London, & streaming online
Dates: 07/09/2023 – 08/09/2023
Cost: Free
Sign up to attend: https://thelowerdecks.janeway.systems/signup
Hello H-CivWar Readers:
Today we feature Scott Hippensteel to talk about his new book, Sand, Science, and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat, published by University of Georgia Press in March 2023.
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Andrew F. Smith.
The Threefold Struggle: Pursuing Ecological, Social, and Personal Wellbeing in the Spirit of Daniel Quinn.
Suny in American Philosophy and Cultural Thought. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2022. xiii + 379 pp.
$95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-8871-4.