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Wood Basket of the World : Lumbering, Commerce, and Conservation in South Carolina's Forests.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Elfenbein, Jessica I.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Santee River Cypress Lumber Company.
- Forests and forestry--South Carolina--History--20th century.
- Forests and forestry.
- Forests and forestry--South Carolina--History--19th century.
- Forest conservation--South Carolina--History--20th century.
- Forest conservation.
- Lumber trade--South Carolina--History.
- Lumber trade.
- Forest products industry--South Carolina--History.
- Forest products industry.
- African Americans--Employment--South Carolina.
- African Americans.
- South Carolina--Race relations--History.
- South Carolina.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (298 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- Tracing South Carolina's hidden history of lumber, labor, and forest conservation across two centuries South Carolina's forests have long shaped the state's economy, landscapes, and labor practices, but its history has remained surprisingly understudied.
- Contents:
- "A town of their own": southern lumber, Black labor, and the promise of African American community at Ferguson, South Carolina, 1890-1916 / Jordan E. Davis
- Expert advisor: Daisy Priscilla Smith Edgerton and early forest conservation in South Carolina / Al Hester
- "A question of community salvation": how Sumter, South Carolina, came to dominate the wood products industry / Jessica I. Elfenbein
- Poinsett State Park: a landscape of recreation, racism, and conservation in Sumter, South Carolina / Maggie Kemp
- An independent force for change: the Holly Hill Lumber Company / Mark Kinzer
- Conservation in Four Holes Swamp: Norman Brunswig and Beidler Forest / T. Robert Hart
- "Redwoods of the East": conservation, ecology, and the meanings of history at Congaree, 1930-76 / Thomas M. Lekan
- Seven hours of the Santee Cooper century: cycling through the "Wood Basket of the World" on the Palmetto Trail, March 2024 / Kent B. Germany.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-64336-684-X
- OCLC:
- 1586551458
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