Environmental History and the American South: A ReaderThis 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 is growing. As coeditor Paul S. Sutter writes in his introduction, “recent trends in environmental historiography--a renewed emphasis on agricultural landscapes and their hybridity, attention to the social and racial histories of environmental thought and practice, and connections between health and the environment among them--have made the South newly attractive terrain. This volume suggests, then, that southern environmental history has not only arrived but also that it may prove an important space for the growth of the larger environmental history enterprise.” The writings, which range in setting from the Texas plains to the Carolina Lowcountry, address a multiplicity of topics, such as husbandry practices in the Chesapeake colonies and the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew. The contributors’ varied disciplinary perspectives--including agricultural history, geography, the history of science, the history of technology, military history, colonial American history, urban and regional planning history, and ethnohistory--also point to the field’s vitality. Conveying the breadth, diversity, and liveliness of this maturing area of study, Environmental History and the American South affirms the critical importance of human-environmental interactions to the history and culture of the region. Contributors:
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A fabulous collection of instructive and sometimes provocative essays!!
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Contents
No More the Backward Region Southern Environmental History Comes of Age | 1 |
The Development of Livestock Husbandry in the SeventeenthCentury Chesapeake | 25 |
Horses and the Economy and Culture of the Choctaw Indians 16901840 | 61 |
Rice Cultivation and African Continuities | 80 |
Trees and the Making of a Plantation Landscape in the Colonial South Carolina Lowcountry | 106 |
Subsistence Shad and Commerce in the Early Republican South | 131 |
Nature and Strategy in the American Civil War | 168 |
American Environmental History West and South | 196 |
Herbert Stoddard and the Roots of Ecological Conservation in the Southern Longleaf Pine Forest | 281 |
Science Technology and American Poultry Production | 311 |
Nature and Science in the Pesticide Controversies of the Late Twentieth Century | 345 |
The Origins of the Environmental Justice Movement | 372 |
The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in South Florida | 400 |
Wetlands in New Orleans | 432 |
Nature Suburbanized and Other Southern Spaces | 458 |
Contributors | 467 |
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| Title | Environmental History and the American South: A Reader Environmental history and the American South |
| Editors | Paul Sutter, Christopher J. Manganiello |
| Publisher | University of Georgia Press, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0820332801, 9780820332802 |
| Length | 488 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Historical Geography History / United States / General Nature / Animals / Wildlife Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection |
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