Blue Ridge Commons - Environmental Activism and Forest History in Western North Carolina

Informationen zum Autor Kathryn Newfont is an associate professor of history and faculty chair for the Ramsey Center for Regional Studies at Mars Hill College. Klappentext In the late twentieth century! residents of the Blue Ridge mountains in western North Carolina fiercely resisted certain environmental efforts! even while launching aggressive initiatives of their own. Kathryn Newfont examines the environmental history of this region over the course of three hundred years! identifying what she calls commons environmentalism - a cultural strain of conservation in American history that has gone largely unexplored. Zusammenfassung Newfont examines the environmental history of the Blue Ridge Commons over the course of three hundred years. Incorporating deep archival work and years of interviews and conversations with Appalachian residents! she reveals a tradition of people building robust forest protection movements on their own terms.

Product details

• Authors: Kathryn Newfont
• Assisted by: Paul Sutter (Editor), Paul S. Sutter (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2011
• EAN: 9780820341248
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4124-8
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Environmental History; Environmental History; Environmental History and the American South
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering