Where there are mountains : an environmental history of the southern Appalachians / Donald Edward Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Donald Edward.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Appalachian Region, Southern--History.

Human ecology.

Nature--Effect of human beings on--Appalachian Region, Southern--History.

Nature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens [Ga.] : University of Georgia Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A timely study of change in a complex environment, Where There Are Mountains explores the relationship between human inhabitants of the southern Appalachians and their environment. Incorporating a wide variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, the study draws information from several viewpoints and spans more than four hundred years of geological, ecological, anthropological, and historical development in the Appalachian region. The book begins with a description of the indigenous Mississippian culture in 1500 and ends with the destructive effects of industrial logging and dam building during the first three decades of the twentieth century. Donald Edward Davis discusses the degradation of the southern Appalachians on a number of levels, from the general effects of settlement and industry to the extinction of the American chestnut due to blight and logging in the early 1900s. This portrait of environmental destruction is echoed by the human struggle to survive in one of our nation's poorest areas. The farming, livestock raising, dam building, and pearl and logging industries that have gradually destroyed this region have also been the livelihood of the Appalachian people. The author explores the sometimes conflicting needs of humans and nature in the mountains while presenting impressive and comprehensive research on the increasingly threatened environment of the southern Appalachians.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 Apalatchi: Naming the Mountains

2 Mississippia: Native Appalachia

3 Apalachee: Spanish Appalachia

4 Kituah: Cherokee Appalachia

5 Southwestern Mountains: Frontier Appalachia

6 Alleghenia: Antebellum Appalachia

7 Appalachia: Making the Modern Landscape

8 Conclusion: Nature, Culture, History

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613031334

9781283031332

1283031337

9780820340210

0820340219

OCLC:

706078496