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Oyster Question
Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay since 1880
Inbunden, 2009
901 kr
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In The Oyster Question, Christine Keiner applies perspectives of environmental, agricultural, political, and social history to examine the decline of Maryland’s iconic Chesapeake Bay oyster industry.Oystermen have held on to traditional ways of life, and some continue to use preindustrial methods, …
Making Catfish Bait out of Government Boys
The Fight against Cattle Ticks and the Transformation of the Yeoman South
Av Claire Strom
Inbunden, 2009
807 kr
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This first full-length study of the cattle tick eradication program in the United States offers a new perspective on the fate of the yeomanry in the twentieth-century South during a period when state and federal governments were both increasing and centralizing their authority. As Claire Strom …
War upon the Land
Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during the American Civil War
Inbunden, 2012
1215 kr
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In this first book-length environmental history of the American Civil War, Lisa M. Brady argues that ideas about nature and the environment were central to the development and success of Union military strategy.From the start of the war, both sides had to contend with forces of nature, even as they …
Everglades Providence
Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century
Inbunden, 2009
566 kr
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No one did more than Marjory Stoneman Douglas to transform the Everglades from the country's most maligned swamp into its most beloved wetland. By the late twentieth century, her name and her classic The Everglades: River of Grass had become synonymous with Everglades protection. The crusading …
My Work Is That of Conservation
An Environmental Biography of George Washington Carver
Inbunden, 2011
1261 kr
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George Washington Carver (ca. 1864–1943) is at once one of the most familiar and misunderstood figures in American history. In My Work Is That of Conservation, Mark D. Hersey reveals the life and work of this fascinating man who is widely—and reductively—known as the African American scientist who …
Environmental History and the American South
A Reader
Av Paul S. Sutter, Christopher Manganiello
Inbunden, 2009
1333 kr
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This reader gathers fifteen of the most important essays written in the field of southern environmental history over the past decade. Ideal for course use, the volume provides a convenient entrée into the recent literature on the region as it indicates the variety of directions in which the field …
Environmental History and the American South
A Reader
Av Paul S. Sutter, Christopher Manganiello
Häftad, 2009
577 kr
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This reader gathers fifteen of the most important essays written in the field of southern environmental history over the past decade. Ideal for course use, the volume provides a convenient entrée into the recent literature on the region as it indicates the variety of directions in which the field …
Pharsalia
An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880
Häftad, 2009
544 kr
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Pharsalia, a plantation located in piedmont Virginia at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is one of the best-documented sites of its kind. Drawing on the exceptionally rich trove of papers left behind by the Massie family, Pharsalia's owners, this case study demonstrates how white southern …
Conserving Southern Longleaf
Herbert Stoddard and the Rise of Ecological Land Management
Inbunden, 2011
1261 kr
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The Red Hills region of south Georgia and north Florida contains one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems in North America, with longleaf pine trees that are up to four hundred years old and an understory of unparalleled plant life. At first glance, the longleaf woodlands at plantations like …
Takeover
Chicken Farming and the Roots of American Agribusiness
Inbunden, 2017
1008 kr
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Economists have described the upcountry Georgia poultry industry as the quintessential agribusiness. Following a trajectory from Reconstruction through the Great Depression to the present day, Monica R. Gisolfi shows how the poultry farming model of semivertical integration perfected a number of …
Making Catfish Bait out of Government Boys
The Fight against Cattle Ticks and the Transformation of the Yeoman South
Av Claire Strom
Häftad, 2010
527 kr
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This first full-length study of the cattle tick eradication program in the United States offers a new perspective on the fate of the yeomanry in the twentieth-century South during a period when state and federal governments were both increasing and centralizing their authority. As Claire Strom …
Oyster Question
Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay since 1880
Häftad, 2010
527 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In The Oyster Question, Christine Keiner applies perspectives of environmental, agricultural, political, and social history to examine the decline of Maryland’s iconic Chesapeake Bay oyster industry.Oystermen have held on to traditional ways of life, and some continue to use preindustrial methods, …
Everglades Providence
Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century
Häftad, 2011
409 kr
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No one did more than Marjory Stoneman Douglas to transform the Everglades from the country's most maligned swamp into its most beloved wetland. By the late twentieth century, her name and her classic The Everglades: River of Grass had become synonymous with Everglades protection. The crusading …
My Work Is That of Conservation
An Environmental Biography of George Washington Carver
Häftad, 2011
543 kr
Lägg i varukorg
George Washington Carver (ca. 1864–1943) is at once one of the most familiar and misunderstood figures in American history. In My Work Is That of Conservation, Mark D. Hersey reveals the life and work of this fascinating man who is widely—and reductively—known as the African American scientist who …
Conserving Southern Longleaf
Herbert Stoddard and the Rise of Ecological Land Management
Häftad, 2011
512 kr
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The Red Hills region of south Georgia and north Florida contains one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems in North America, with longleaf pine trees that are up to four hundred years old and an understory of unparalleled plant life. At first glance, the longleaf woodlands at plantations like …
Blue Ridge Commons
Environmental Activism and Forest History in Western North Carolina
Inbunden, 2012
1299 kr
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In the late twentieth century, residents of the Blue Ridge mountains in western North Carolina fiercely resisted certain environmental efforts, even while launching aggressive initiatives of their own. Kathryn Newfont examines the environmental history of this region over the course of three …
Blue Ridge Commons
Environmental Activism and Forest History in Western North Carolina
Häftad, 2012
577 kr
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In the late twentieth century, residents of the Blue Ridge mountains in western North Carolina fiercely resisted certain environmental efforts, even while launching aggressive initiatives of their own. Kathryn Newfont examines the environmental history of this region over the course of three …
War upon the Land
Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during the American Civil War
Häftad, 2012
443 kr
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In this first book-length environmental history of the American Civil War, Lisa M. Brady argues that ideas about nature and the environment were central to the development and success of Union military strategy.From the start of the war, both sides had to contend with forces of nature, even as they …
Race and the Greening of Atlanta
Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in an Ascendant Metropolis
Inbunden, 2023
2134 kr
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Race and the Greening of Atlanta turns an environmental lens on Atlanta’s ascent to thriving capital of the Sunbelt over the twentieth century. Uniquely wide ranging in scale, from the city’s variegated neighborhoods up to its place in regional and national political economies, this book …
Race and the Greening of Atlanta
Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in an Ascendant Metropolis
Häftad, 2023
679 kr
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Race and the Greening of Atlanta turns an environmental lens on Atlanta’s ascent to thriving capital of the Sunbelt over the twentieth century. Uniquely wide ranging in scale, from the city’s variegated neighborhoods up to its place in regional and national political economies, this book …
Beyond the Mountains
Commodifying Appalachian Environments
Inbunden, 2018
1710 kr
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Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature. The region operated alternately as frontier, wilderness, rural hinterland, region of subsistence agriculture, bastion of yeoman farmers, and …
Remaking Wormsloe Plantation
The Environmental History of a Lowcountry Landscape
Häftad, 2014
508 kr
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Why do we preserve certain landscapes while developing others without restraint? Drew A. Swanson’s in-depth look at Wormsloe plantation, located on the salt marshes outside of Savannah, Georgia, explores that question while revealing the broad historical forces that have shaped the lowcountry …
Takeover
Chicken Farming and the Roots of American Agribusiness
Häftad, 2017
430 kr
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Economists have described the upcountry Georgia poultry industry as the quintessential agribusiness. Following a trajectory from Reconstruction through the Great Depression to the present day, Monica R. Gisolfi shows how the poultry farming model of semivertical integration perfected a number of …
Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture
Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast
Av Paul S. Sutter, Paul M. Pressly
Inbunden, 2018
1601 kr
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One of the unique features of the Georgia coast today is its thorough conservation. At first glance, it seems to be a place where nature reigns. But another distinctive feature of the coast is its deep and diverse human history. Indeed, few places that seem so natural hide so much human history. In …
Price of Permanence
Nature and Business in the New South
Inbunden, 2018
949 kr
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Using the lens of environmental history, William D. Bryan provides a sweeping reinterpretation of the post–Civil War South by framing the New South as a struggle over environmental stewardship. For more than six decades, scholars have caricatured southerners as so desperate for economic growth that …
Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture
Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast
Av Paul S. Sutter, Paul M. Pressly
Häftad, 2018
577 kr
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One of the unique features of the Georgia coast today is its thorough conservation. At first glance, it seems to be a place where nature reigns. But another distinctive feature of the coast is its deep and diverse human history. Indeed, few places that seem so natural hide so much human history. In …
Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies
Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South
Häftad, 2018
477 kr
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Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia’s “Little Grand Canyon,” preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. It is a park that protects the scenic results of an environmental disaster. While little known today, …
Beyond the Mountains
Commodifying Appalachian Environments
Häftad, 2018
577 kr
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Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature. The region operated alternately as frontier, wilderness, rural hinterland, region of subsistence agriculture, bastion of yeoman farmers, and …
Bulldozer Revolutions
A Rural History of the Metropolitan South
Inbunden, 2018
1020 kr
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By examining the metropolitan fringes of Houston in Montgomery County, Texas, and Washington, D.C., in Loudoun County, Virginia, this book combines rural, environmental, and agricultural history to disrupt our view of the southern metropolis.Andrew C. Baker examines the local boosters, gentlemen …
Atlantic Environments and the American South
Av Thomas Blake Earle, D. Andrew Johnson
Inbunden, 2020
2031 kr
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There is clear overlap in interests and influences for the fields of Atlantic, environmental, and southern history, but scholarship in them has often advanced on parallel tracks. This anthology places itself at the intersection, pushing for a new confluence. Editors Thomas Blake Earle and D. Andrew …
