Environmental history and the American South : a reader / edited by Paul S. Sutter and Christopher J. Manganiello.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sutter, Paul.

Manganiello, Christopher J., 1973-

Series:

Environmental history and the American South

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental protection.

History.

Nature--Effect of human beings on.

Agriculture--Environmental aspects.

Ecology.

Environmental conditions.

Southern States--Environmental conditions.

Southern States.

Ecology--Southern States--History.

Agriculture--Environmental aspects--Southern States--History.

Agriculture.

Nature--Effect of human beings on--Southern States--History.

Nature.

Natural history--Southern States.

Natural history.

Environmental protection--Southern States--History.

Physical Description:

ix, 488 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2009]

Contents:

Introduction: No more the backward region : Southern environmental history comes of age / Paul S. Sutter

Animals into the wilderness : the development of livestock husbandry in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake / Virginia DeJohn Anderson

Horses and the economy and culture of the Choctaw Indians, 1690-1840 / James Taylor Carson

Landscapes of technology transfer : rice cultivation and African continuities / Judith Carney

Clearing swamps, harvesting forests : trees and the making of a plantation landscape in the colonial South Carolina lowcountry / S. Max Edelson

The common rights of mankind : subsistence, shad, and commerce in the early republican South / Harry Watson

The wilderness of war : nature and strategy in the American Civil War / Lisa Brady

If John Muir had been an agrarian : American environmental history west and south / Mart Stewart

Texas fever and the dispossession of the Southern yeoman farmer / Claire Strom

Like manna from God : the American chestnut trade in Southwestern Virginia / Ralph H. Lutts

Burned to be wild : Herbert Stoddard and the roots of ecological conservation in the Southern longleaf pine forest / Albert G. Way

Making meat : science, technology, and American poultry production / William Boyd

The fire ant wars : nature and science in the pesticide controversies of the late twentieth century / Joshua Blu Buhs

From NIMBY to civil rights : the origins of the environmental justice movement / Eileen Maura McGurty

Do-it-yourself deathscape : the unnatural history of natural disaster in South Florida / Ted Steinberg

Reintroducing nature to the city : wetlands in New Orleans / Craig E. Colten

Epilogue: Nature suburbanized, and other Southern spaces / Jack Temple Kirby.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780820332802

0820332801

9780820333229

0820333220

OCLC:

245597590