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  • - The Fight Against Cattle Ticks and the Transformation of the Yeoman South
    av Claire Strom
    512 - 720,-

    Presents the study of the cattle tick eradication program in the United States that offers a fresh perspective on the fate of the yeomanry in the twentieth-century South during a period when state and federal governments were both increasing and centralizing their authority.

  • - Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century
    av Jack E. Davis
    421 - 621,-

    No one did more than Marjory Stoneman Douglas to transform the Everglades from the country's most maligned swamp into its most beloved wetland. By the late twentieth century, her name and her classic ""The Everglades: River of Grass"" had become synonymous with Everglades protection. This is a biography on Marjory.

  • - Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South
    av Paul S. Sutter
    370 - 555,-

    Providence Canyon State Park preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies uses the unlikely story of Providence Canyon - and the 1930s contest over its origins and meaning - to recount the larger history of dramatic human-induced soil erosion across the US south.

  • - Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay Since 1880
    av Christine Keiner
    464 - 1 657,-

    Applies perspectives of environmental, agricultural, political, and social history to examine the decline of Maryland's iconic Chesapeake Bay oyster industry.

  • - An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880
    av Lynn A. Nelson
    422,-

    Pharsalia, a plantation located in piedmont Virginia at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is one of the best-documented sites of its kind. This case study follows the fortunes of Pharsalia's owners, telling how Virginia's traditional extensive agriculture contributed to the soil's erosion and exhaustion.

  • - An Environmental Biography of George Washington Carver
    av Mark D. Hersey
    464 - 1 122,-

    Hersey shows that in the hands of pioneers like Carver, Progressive Era agronomy was actually considerably "greener" than is often thought today. He uses Carver's life story to explore aspects of southern environmental history and to place this important scientist within the early conservation movement.

  • - Chicken Farming and the Roots of American Agribusiness
    av Monica R. Gisolfi
    344 - 812,-

    Following a trajectory from Reconstruction to the present day, Monica Gisolfi shows how the Georgia poultry farming model of semivertical integration perfected a number of practices that had first underpinned the cotton-growing crop-lien system, ultimately transforming the poultry industry.

  • - The Environmental History of a Lowcountry Landscape
    av Drew A. Swanson
    398,-

    Why do we preserve certain landscapes while developing others without restraint? Drew A. Swanson's in-depth look at Wormsloe plantation, located on the salt marshes outside of Savannah, Georgia, explores that question while revealing the broad historical forces that have shaped the lowcountry South.

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