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Radioactive Dixie - A Nuclear History Of The American South

de Caroline Peyton

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 How and why did the Southâ€™s history, culture, and politics shape the regionâ€™s nuclear and energy industries? From this perspective, bomb plants and nuclear reactors promised to expand the Southâ€™s economy and to cast its identity as a center of modern industry, science, and engineering and as a producer of cheap, limitless energy.
Takeover - Chicken Farming And The Roots Of American Agribusiness

de Monica R. Gisolfi

34,38€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Economists have described the upcountry Georgia poultry industry as the quintessential agribusiness. Following a trajectory from Reconstruction through the Great Depression to the present day, Monica R. Gisolfi shows how the 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 in ways that drove tens of thousands of farmers off the land and rendered those who remained dependent on large agribusiness firms.Gisolfi argues that the inequalities inherent in the structure of modern poultry farming have led to steep human and environmental costs. Agribusiness firms-many of them descended from the cotton-era South's furnishing merchants-brought farmers into a system of feed-conversion contracts that placed all production decisions in the hands of the poultry corporations but at least half of the capital risks on the farmers. Along the way, the federal government aided and abetted-sometimes unwittingly-the consolidation of power by poultry firms through direct and indirect subsidies and favorable policies. Drawing on USDA files, oral history, congressional records, and poultry publications, Gisolfi puts a local face on one of the twentieth century's silent agribusiness revolutions.
Price Of Permanence - Nature And Business In The New South

de William D. Bryan

76,78€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 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 officials did not see profit and environmental quality as mutually exclusive goals, and they promoted methods of conserving resources that they thought would ensure long-term economic growth. Southerners called this idea "permanence." But permanence was a contested concept, and these businesspeople clashed with other stakeholders as they struggled to find new ways of using valuable resources. The Price of Permanence shows how these struggles indelibly shaped the modern South. Bryan writes the region into the national conservation movement for the first time and shows that business leaders played a key role shaping the ideals of American conservationists. This book also dismantles one of the most persistent caricatures of southerners: that they had little interest in environmental quality. Conservation provided white elites with a tool for social control, and this is the first work to show how struggles over resource policy fueled Jim Crow. The ideology of "permanence" protected some resources but did not prevent degradation of the environment overall, and The Price of Permanence ultimately uses lessons from the New South to reflect on sustainability today.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies - Providence Canyon And The Soils Of The South

de Paul S. Sutter

48,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia’s "Little Grand Canyon," preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. It is a park that protects the scenic results of an environmental disaster. While little known today, Providence Canyon enjoyed a modicum of fame in the 1930s. During that decade, local boosters attempted to have Providence Canyon protected as a national park, insisting that it was natural. At the same time, national and international soil experts and other environmental reformers used Providence Canyon as the apotheosis of human, and particularly southern, land abuse. 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 South and to highlight the role that the region and its erosive agricultural history played in the rise of soil science and soil conservation in America. More than that, though, the book is a meditation on the ways in which our persistent mental habit of separating nature from culture has stunted our ability to appreciate places like Providence Canyon and to understand the larger history of American conservation.
Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture - Environmental Histories Of The Georgia Coast

129,78€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 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 much human history. In Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture, editors Paul S. Sutter and Paul M. Pressly have brought together work from leading historians as well as environmental writers and activists that explores how nature and culture have coexisted and interacted across five millennia of human history along the Georgia coast, as well as how those interactions have shaped the coast as we know it today. The essays in this volume examine how successive communities of Native Americans, Spanish missionaries, British imperialists and settlers, planters, enslaved Africans, lumbermen, pulp and paper industrialists, vacationing northerners, Gullah-Geechee, nature writers, environmental activists, and many others developed distinctive relationships with the environment and produced well- defined coastal landscapes. Together these histories suggest that contemporary efforts to preserve and protect the Georgia coast must be as respectful of the rich and multifaceted history of the coast as they are of natural landscapes, many of them restored, that now define so much of the region. Contributors: William Boyd, S. Max Edelson, Edda L. Fields-Black, Christopher J. Manganiello, Tiya Miles, Janisse Ray, Mart A. Stewart, Drew A. Swanson, David Hurst Thomas, and Albert G. Way.
Bulldozer Revolutions - A Rural History Of The Metropolitan South

de Andrew C. Baker

83,41€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 By examining the metropolitan fringes of Houston in Montgomery County, Texas, and Washington, D.C., in Loudoun County, Virginia, this book combines rural, environmental, and agricultural history to disrupt our view of the southern metropolis. Andrew C. Baker examines the local boosters, gentlemen farmers, historical preservationists, and nature-seeking suburbanites who abandoned the city to live in the metropolitan countryside during the twentieth century. These property owners formed the vanguard of the antigrowth movement that has defined metropolitan fringe politics across the nation. In the rural South, subdivisions, reservoirs, homesteads, and historical villages each obscured the troubling legacies of racism and rural poverty and celebrated a refashioned landscape. That landscape’s historical and environmental "authenticity" served as a foil to the alienation and ugliness of suburbia. Using a source base that includes the records of preservation organizations and local, state, and federal government agencies, as well as oral histories, Baker explores the distinct roots of the environmental politics and the shifting relationship between city and country within these metropolitan fringe regions.
Beyond The Mountains - Commodifying Appalachian Environments

de Drew A. Swanson

139,06€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature. The region operated alternately as frontier, wilderness, rural hinterland, region of subsistence agriculture, bastion of yeoman farmers, and place to experiment with modernization. In these various takes on the southern mountains, scattered across time and space, both mountain residents and outsiders consistently believed that the region’s environment made Appalachia distinctive, for better or worse. With chapters dedicated to microhistories focused on particular commodities, Drew A. Swanson builds upon recent Appalachian studies scholarship, emphasizing the diversity of a region so long considered a homogenous backwater. While Appalachia has a recognizable and real coherence rooted in folkways, agriculture, and politics (among other things), it is also a region of varied environments, people, and histories. These discrete stories are, however, linked through the power of conceptualizing nature and work together to reveal the ways in which ideas and uses of nature often created a sense of identity in Appalachia. Delving into the environmental history of the region reveals that Appalachian environments, rather than separating the mountains from the broader world, often served to connect the region to outside places.
Atlantic Environments And The American South

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 There is clear overlap in interests and influences for the fields of Atlantic, environmental, and southern history, but scholarship in them has often advanced on parallel tracks. This anthology places itself at the intersection, pushing for a new confluence. Editors Thomas Blake Earle and D. Andrew Johnson provide a lucid introduction to this collection of essays that brings these disciplines together. With this volume, historians explore crucial insights into a self-consciously Atlantic environmental history of the American South, touching on such topics as ideas about slavery, gender, climate, "colonial ecological revolution," manipulation of the landscape, infrastructure, resources, and exploitation. By centering this project on a region, the American South—defined as the southeastern reaches of North America and the Caribbean— the authors interrogate how European colonizers, Native Americans, and Africans interacted in and with the (sub)tropics, a place foreign to Europeans. Challenging the concepts of "Atlantic" and "southern" and their intersection with "environments" is a discipline-defining strategy at the leading edge of emerging scholarship. Taken collectively, this book should encourage more readers to reimagine this region, its time periods, climate(s), and ecocultural networks.
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Race And The Greening Of Atlanta - Inequality, Democracy, And Environmental Politics In An Ascendant Metropolis

de Christopher C. (Stony Brook University) Sellers

59,42€

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 Turns an environmental lens on Atlantaâ€™s ascent to thriving capital of the Sunbelt over the twentieth century. Uniquely wide ranging in scale, this book reinterprets the fall of Jim Crow as a democratization born of two metropolitan movements.
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Race And The Greening Of Atlanta - Inequality, Democracy, And Environmental Politics In An Ascendant Metropolis

de Christopher C. (Stony Brook University) Sellers

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 Turns an environmental lens on Atlantaâ€™s ascent to thriving capital of the Sunbelt over the twentieth century. Uniquely wide ranging in scale, this book reinterprets the fall of Jim Crow as a democratization born of two metropolitan movements.
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Radioactive Dixie - A Nuclear History Of The American South

de Caroline Peyton

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 How and why did the Southâ€™s history, culture, and politics shape the regionâ€™s nuclear and energy industries? From this perspective, bomb plants and nuclear reactors promised to expand the Southâ€™s economy and to cast its identity as a center of modern industry, science, and engineering and as a producer of cheap, limitless energy.
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Radioactive Dixie - A Nuclear History Of The American South

de Caroline Peyton

~~39,68€~~ 35,71€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 How and why did the South’s history, culture, and politics shape the region’s nuclear and energy industries? And how is that history linked to broader developments in the nuclear and energy industries—nationally and globally? Radioactive Dixie answers those questions as it traces the origins of the U.S. South’s love affair with the atom. The South contains more nuclear reactors than any other region in the United States and much of the nation’s radioactive waste. This book shows how the South’s atomic footprint resulted from a decades-long effort by Southern politicians, industry figures, universities, and government officials to transform the American South into a nuclear-oriented region. Waving the atomic talisman, the nuclear industry served as one pivotal part in a larger project of regional modernization—a process that began in the nineteenth century and lasted more than a century. From this perspective, bomb plants and nuclear reactors promised to expand the South’s economy and to cast its identity as a center of modern industry, science, and engineering and as a producer of cheap, limitless energy. Radioactive Dixie is the first book to chronicle this regional story that had national implications. Southern history informed national siting decisions, regulatory oversight, and attitudes toward the various nuclear projects that proliferated in the post-World War II period.
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Race And The Greening Of Atlanta - Inequality, Democracy, And Environmental Politics In An Ascendant Metropolis

de Christopher C. Sellers

55,58€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Turns an environmental lens on Atlantaâ€™s ascent to thriving capital of the Sunbelt over the twentieth century. Uniquely wide ranging in scale, this book reinterprets the fall of Jim Crow as a democratization born of two metropolitan movements.
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Poison Powder - The Kepone Disaster In Virginia And Its Legacy

de Gregory S. Wilson

46,31€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In 1975 workers at Life Science Products, a small makeshift pesticide factory in Hopewell, Virginia, became ill after exposure to Kepone, the brand name for the pesticide chlordecone. They made the poison under contract for a much larger Hopewell company, Allied Chemical. Life Science workers had been breathing in the dust for more than a year. Ingestion of the chemical made their bodies seize and shake. News of ill workers eventually led to the discovery of widespread environmental contamination of the nearby James River and the landscape of the small, working-class city. Not only had Life Science dumped the chemical, but so had Allied when the company manufactured it in the 1960s and early 1970s. The resulting toxic impact was not only on the city of Hopewell but also on the faraway fields where Kepone was used as an insecticide. Aspects of this environmental tragedy are all too common: corporate avarice, ignorance, and regulatory failure combined with race and geography to determine toxicity and shape the response. But the Kepone story also contains some surprising medical, legal, and political moments amid the disaster. With Poison Powder, Gregory S. Wilson explores the conditions that put the Kepone factory and the workers there in the first place and the effects of the poison on the people and natural world long after 1975. Although the manufacture and use of Kepone is now banned by the Environmental Protection Agency, organochlorines have long half-lives, and these toxic compounds and their residues still remain in the environment.
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From Swamp To Wetland - The Creation Of Everglades National Park

de Chris Wilhelm

43,66€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This book chronicles the creation of Everglades National Park, the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States.
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The Price Of Permanence - Nature And Business In The New South

de William D. Bryan

52,66€

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 Using the lens of environmental history, William D. Bryan provides a sweeping reinterpretation of the postâ€"Civil War South by framing the New South as a struggle over environmental stewardship. Ultimately, he uses lessons from the New South to reflect on the path of American conservation and notions of sustainability today.
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Atlantic Environments And The American South

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 There is clear overlap in interests and influences for the fields of Atlantic, environmental, and southern history, but scholarship in them has often advanced on parallel tracks. This anthology places itself at the intersection, pushing for a new confluence.
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The Living Shoreline - How A Small, Squishy Animal Is A Coastal Hero

de Valerie J. Frey; Ilustração: Alan Reid

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 Learning about oysters and their role in the environment will help our young people grow into adults who are good stewards of our planet. Understanding life cycles and the interconnections between species, no matter how small, are crucial to that outcome, and oysters are a fascinating and compelling way to explore those concepts.
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From Swamp To Wetland - The Creation Of Everglades National Park

de Chris Wilhelm

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 This book chronicles the creation of Everglades National Park, the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States.
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The Takeover - Chicken Farming And The Roots Of American Agribusiness

de Monica R. Gisolfi

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 Gisolfi shows how the 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 in ways that drove tens of thousands of farmers off the land and rendered those who remained dependent on large agribusiness firms.
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The Takeover - Chicken Farming And The Roots Of American Agribusiness

de Monica R. Gisolfi

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 Gisolfi shows how the 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 in ways that drove tens of thousands of farmers off the land and rendered those who remained dependent on large agribusiness firms.
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies - Providence Canyon And The Soils Of The South

de Paul S. Sutter

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 This study uses the unlikely story of Georgia's Providence Canyon to recount the larger history of dramatic human-induced soil erosion across the South and to highlight the role that the region and its erosive agricultural history played in the rise of soil science and soil conservation in America.
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Inspired Georgia

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 A unique collection of Georgiaâ€™s contemporary poets and photographers that engages the history and culture of the state, while serving as a document of some of the best and most powerful pieces penned by Georgia poets and images shot by Georgia photographers in recent years.
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My Work Is That Of Conservation - An Environmental Biography Of George Washington Carver

de Mark D. Hersey

179,73€

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