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Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgias Little Grand Canyon, preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the …
Why do we preserve certain landscapes while developing others without restraint? Drew A. Swansons in-depth look at Wormsloe plantation, located on the salt marshes outside of …
During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers' bodies were transformed into 'dead heaps of ruins,' novel sights in the southern landscape. How did this happen, and …
In this first book-length environmental history of the American Civil War, Lisa M. Brady argues that ideas about nature and the environment were central to the development and …
A “lucid, often pithy” history of the eastern Gulf Coast vacation destination by an Alabama native who is “a talented storyteller as well as a scholar” (Washington Times). In The …
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 …
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 …
The influence of sedimentary geology on the strategy, combat, and tactics of the American Civil War is a subject that has been neglected by military historians. Sedimentary geology …
This Delta, This Land is a comprehensive environmental history of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta-the first one to place the Deltas economic and cultural history in an environmental …
Disturbing Development in the Jim Crow South documents how Black employees of the cooperative extension service of the USDA practiced rural improvement in ways that sustained …