Beyond the mountains : commodifying Appalachian environments / Drew A. Swanson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swanson, Drew A., 1979- author.

Series:

Environmental history and the American South

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Human ecology.

Natural resources--Appalachian Region, Southern--History.

Natural resources.

Ecology.

Environmental conditions.

History.

Appalachian Region, Southern--Environmental conditions.

Appalachian Region, Southern.

Southern Appalachian Region.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 264 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2018]

Summary:

"Beyond the Mountains explore the ways in which Appalachia so often served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature. The region served alternately as frontier, wilderness, rural hinterland, a region of backward agriculture, a bastion of yeoman farmers, and a place to experiment with modernization. In these various takes on the southern mountains, scattered across time and space, both mountain residents and outsiders consistently believed that the region's environment made Appalachia distinctive, for better or worse"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: a constant Arcadia

Leather: the deerskin trade in the southern mountains

Plants: botanical collectors and the roots of Appalachian identity

Gold: the rise, fall, and rebirth of southern gold mining

Salt: Saltville's Civil War

Transportation: Roanoke, railroads, and Appalachia on the move

Scenery: recreation and tourism on Grandfather Mountain

Tobacco: making ground for an international crop

Power: building an atomic Appalachia in east Tennessee

Coal: sludge ponds and vanishing mountains

Epilogue: The adelgid and the salamander.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780820344874

0820344877

9780820353968

0820353965

OCLC:

1030906835

Publisher Number:

99979012900