Beyond the mountains : commodifying Appalachian environments /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Swanson, Drew A., 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2018]
Series:Environmental history and the American South.
Subjects:
Human ecology > Appalachian Region, Southern > History.
Natural resources > Appalachian Region, Southern > History.
Ressources naturelles > Appalaches (Sud) > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Ecology
Human ecology
Natural resources
Appalachian Region, Southern > Environmental conditions.
Appalaches (Sud) > Conditions environnementales.
Southern Appalachian Region
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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