Georgia Peach - Culture, Agriculture, and Environment in the American South

This book explores the significance of the peach as a cultural icon and viable commodity in the American South.

List of contents

1. A wilderness of peach trees; 2. The baron of pears; 3. Elberta, you're a peach; 4. A Connecticut Yankee in King Cotton's court; 5. Rot and glut; 6. Blossoms and hams; 7. Under the trees.

About the author

William Thomas Okie is Assistant Professor at Kennesaw State University, Georgia, where he teaches American history, food history, and history education. Trained in environmental and agricultural history at the University of Georgia, he has produced work that has won prizes from the Society of American Historians, the Southern Historical Association, and the Agricultural History Society. He has written for the journal Agricultural History and the Southern Foodways Alliance's quarterly, Gravy.

Summary

This historical study shows how the peach emerged as a viable commodity precisely when the South was desperate for an improved reputation. The book joins a renaissance in writing about the food, agriculture, and environment of the American South.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Okie, William Thomas Okie, William Thomas (Kennesaw State University Okie, Okie William Thomas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9781107071728
• ISBN: 978-1-107-07172-8
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Cambridge Studies on the American South; Cambridge Studies on the Ameri; Cambridge Studies on the Ameri; Cambridge Studies on the American South
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Georgia, 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Environmental Economics, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Georgia (US State)