Remaking Wormsloe Plantation : the environmental history of a Lowcountry landscape /

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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 S...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Swanson, Drew A., 1979-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2012.
Colección:Environmental history and the American South.
Temas:
Plantations > Georgia > Savannah Region > History.
Plantation life > Georgia > Savannah Region > History.
Landscapes > Georgia > Savannah Region > History.
Cultural landscapes > Georgia > Savannah Region > History.
Landscape changes > Georgia > Savannah Region > History.
Archaeology and history > Georgia > Savannah Region.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Georgia > Savannah Region.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
HISTORY > Historical Geography.
Archaeology and history
Cultural landscapes
Ecology
Excavations (Archaeology)
Landscape changes
Landscapes
Plantation life
Plantations
Wormsloe Plantation Site (Ga.) > History.
Wormsloe Plantation Site (Ga.) > Environmental conditions.
Georgia > Savannah Region
Georgia > Wormsloe Plantation Site
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The Last Plantation
  • A Lowcountry Experiment : Creating a Transatlantic Wormsloe
  • Becoming a Plantation : Wormsloe from the Revolution to the Civil War
  • Wormsloe Remade : Plantation Culture from the Civil War to the Twentieth Century
  • "Worth Crossing Oceans to See" : The Transition from an Agricultural to an Ornamental Landscape
  • From Plantation to Park : Wormsloe since 1938.

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