Environmental history and the American South
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited by Paul S. Sutter and   Christopher J. Manganiello.
Contributors: Sutter, Paul.; Manganiello, Christopher J., 1973-
Series: Environmental history and the American South
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780820332802; 9780820333229
Subjects: Ecology -- Southern States -- History; Agriculture -- Environmental aspects -- Southern States -- History; Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Southern States -- History; Natural history -- Southern States; Environmental protection -- Southern States -- History; Southern States -- Environmental conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: No more the backward region : Southern environmental history comes of age; title: Animals into the wilderness : the development of livestock husbandry in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake / Virginia DeJohn Anderson; title: Horses and the economy and culture of the Choctaw Indians, 1690-1840 / James Taylor Carson; title: Landscapes of technology transfer : rice cultivation and African continuities / Judith Carney; title: Clearing swamps, harvesting forests : trees and the making of a plantation landscape in the colonial South Carolina lowcountry / S. Max Edelson; title: The common rights of mankind : subsistence, shad, and commerce in the early republican South / Harry Watson; title: The wilderness of war : nature and strategy in the American Civil War / Lisa Brady; title: If John Muir had been an agrarian : American environmental history west and south / Mart Stewart; title: Texas fever and the dispossession of the Southern yeoman farmer / Claire Strom; title: Like manna from God : the American chestnut trade in Southwestern Virginia / Ralph H. Lutts; title: Burned to be wild : Herbert Stoddard and the roots of ecological conservation in the Southern longleaf pine forest / Albert G. Way; title: Making meat : science, technology, and American poultry production / William Boyd; title: The fire ant wars : nature and science in the pesticide controversies of the late twentieth century / Joshua Blu Buhs; title: From NIMBY to civil rights : the origins of the environmental justice movement / Eileen Maura McGurty; title: Do-it-yourself deathscape : the unnatural history of natural disaster in South Florida / Ted Steinberg; title: Reintroducing nature to the city : wetlands in New Orleans / Craig E. Colten; title: Epilogue: Nature suburbanized, and other Southern spaces / Jack Temple Kirby.