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  • Gwinnett County, Georgia, and the Transformation of the American South, 1818–2018

    by Julia Brock, William D. Bryan, Richard A. Cook Jr., Lisa L. Crutchfield, Edward Hatfield, Keith Hebert, R. Scott Huffard Jr., Jr., David Mason, Marko Maunula, Erica Metcalfe, Katheryn L. Nikolich, David B. Parker, Bradley R. Rice, Carey Olmstead Shellman ...
    In Gwinnett County’s two hundred years, the area has been western, southern, rural, suburban, and now increasingly urban. Its stories include the displacement of Native peoples, white settlement, legal battles over Indian Removal, slavery and cotton, the Civil War and the Lost Cause, New South railroad and town development, Reconstruction and Jim Crow, business development and finance in a ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Price of Permanence

    Nature and Business in the New South

    by William D. Bryan ...
    Series series Environmental History and the American South
    Using the lens of environmental history, William D. Bryan provides a sweeping reinterpretation of the post–Civil War South by framing the New South as a struggle over environmental stewardship. For more than six decades, scholars have caricatured southerners as so desperate for economic growth that they rapaciously consumed the region’s abundant natural resources. Yet business leaders and public ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

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    The Ordeal of Appalachia

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    How the United States underdeveloped AppalachiaAppalachia—among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America—has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original investigation into the history of Appalachia and its place in U.S. history, with a special emphasis on how ... Read more

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  • Down to Earth

    Nature's Role in American History

    by Ted Steinberg ...
    A tour de force of writing and analysis, Down to Earth offers a sweeping history of our nation, one that for the first time places the environment at the very center of our story. Writing with marvelous clarity, historian Ted Steinberg sweeps across the centuries, re-envisioning the story of America as he recounts how the environment has played a key role in virtually every social, economic, and ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • American Canopy

    Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation

    by Eric Rutkow ...
    This fascinating and groundbreaking work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and their trees across the entire span of our nation’s history.Like many of us, historians have long been guilty of taking trees for granted. Yet the history of trees in America is no less remarkable than the history of the United States itself—from the majestic white pines of New England, ... Read more

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  • The Source

    How Rivers Made America and America Remade Its Rivers

    by Martin Doyle ...
    “An original and thought-provoking exploration of the sinuous course that water has carved through our economic and political landscape.” —Gerard Helferich, Wall Street JournalIn a powerful work of environmental history, Martin Doyle tells the epic story of America and its rivers, from the U.S. Constitution’s roots in interstate river navigation, to the failure of the levees in Hurricane Katrina ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • Born in the Country

    A History of Rural America

    by David B. Danbom ...
    Series series Revisiting Rural America
    Updated edition: "A balanced economic, social, political, and technological history of rural America . . . A splendid book, rich with detail." — Agricultural History ReviewThrough most of its history, America has been a rural nation, largely made up of farmers. David B. Danbom's Born in the Country was the first—and is still the only—general history of rural America. Ranging from pre-Columbian ... Read more

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  • Clean and White

    A History of Environmental Racism in the United States

    by Carl A Zimring ...
    Series Book 1 - Children and Youth in America
    "A comprehensive . . . and provocative exploration of environmental racism from the founding of the republic until the 1960s" ( American Historical Review)Clean and White offers a history of environmental racism in the United States focusing on constructions of race and hygiene. In the wake of the civil war, as the nation encountered emancipation, mass immigration, and the growth of an urbanized ... Read more

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  • Consuming Power

    A Social History of American Energies

    by David E. Nye ...
    Nye uses energy as a touchstone to examine the lives of ordinary people engaged in normal activities.How did the United States become the world's largest consumer of energy? David Nye shows that this is less a question about the development of technology than it is a question about the development of culture. In Consuming Power, Nye uses energy as a touchstone to examine the lives of ordinary ... Read more

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  • Plantation Kingdom

    The American South and Its Global Commodities

    by Richard Follett, Sven Beckert, Peter Coclanis, Barbara M. Hahn ...
    Series series The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series
    How global competition brought the plantation kingdom to its knees.In 1850, America’s plantation economy reigned supreme. U.S. cotton dominated world markets, and American rice, sugarcane, and tobacco grew throughout a vast farming empire that stretched from Maryland to Texas. Four million enslaved African Americans toiled the fields, producing global commodities that enriched the most powerful ... Read more

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  • Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture

    Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast

    by Paul S Sutter, Paul M Pressly ...
    Series series Environmental History and the American South
    An essay collection exploring the history of 5,000-year relationship between human culture and nature on the Georgia coast.One of the unique features of the Georgia coast today is its thorough conservation. At first glance, it seems to be a place where nature reigns. But another distinctive feature of the coast is its deep and diverse human history. Indeed, few places that seem so natural hide so ... Read more

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  • Empire of Rubber

    Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia

    by Gregg Mitman ...
    An ambitious and shocking exposé of America’s hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadowIn the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world’s automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world’s rubber. But only one percent of the world’s rubber grew under the U.S. flag, creating a bottleneck that hampered the nation’s explosive economic expansion ... Read more

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