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Beyond the mountains : commodifying Appalachian environments /

"Beyond the Mountains explore the ways in which Appalachia so often served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature. The region served alternately as frontier, wilderness, rural hinterland, a region of backward agriculture, a bastion of yeoman farmers,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Swanson, Drew A., 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2018]
Colección:Environmental history and the American South.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction: a constant Arcadia -- Leather: the deerskin trade in the southern mountains -- Plants: botanical collectors and the roots of Appalachian identity -- Gold: the rise, fall, and rebirth of southern gold mining -- Salt: Saltville's Civil War -- Transportation: Roanoke, railroads, and Appalachia on the move -- Scenery: recreation and tourism on Grandfather Mountain -- Tobacco: making ground for an international crop -- Power: building an atomic Appalachia in east Tennessee -- Coal: sludge ponds and vanishing mountains -- Epilogue: The adelgid and the salamander. 
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