Sökt på: Böcker av James C. Giesen
totalt 11 träffar
Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture
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 Price of Permanence
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 …
Food and Eating in America
Guides students through a rich menu of American history through food and eating This book features a wide and diverse range of primary sources covering the cultivation, …
Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies
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 …
Boll Weevil Blues
Between the 1890s and the early 1920s, the boll weevil slowly ate its way across the Cotton South from Texas to the Atlantic Ocean. At the turn of the century, some Texas counties …
Bulldozer Revolutions
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 …
Food and Eating in America
Guides students through a rich menu of American history through food and eating This book features a wide and diverse range of primary sources covering the cultivation, …
Boll Weevil Blues
Between the 1890s and the early 1920s, the boll weevil slowly ate its way across the Cotton South from Texas to the Atlantic Ocean. At the turn of the century, some Texas counties …
Bulldozer Revolutions
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 …
Beyond the Mountains
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 …
Food and Eating in America
Guides students through a rich menu of American history through food and eating This book features a wide and diverse range of primary sources covering the cultivation, …