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Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture - Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast

English · Hardback

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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 coast is its deep and diverse human history. Indeed, few places that seem so natural hide so much human history. In Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture, editors Paul S. Sutter and Paul M. Pressly have brought together work from leading historians as well as environmental writers and activists that explores how nature and culture have coexisted and interacted across five millennia of human history along the Georgia coast, as well as how those interactions have shaped the coast as we know it today.
The essays in this volume examine how successive communities of Native Americans, Spanish missionaries, British imperialists and settlers, planters, enslaved Africans, lumbermen, pulp and paper industrialists, vacationing northerners, Gullah-Geechee, nature writers, environmental activists, and many others developed distinctive relationships with the environment and produced well- defined coastal landscapes. Together these histories suggest that contemporary efforts to preserve and protect the Georgia coast must be as respectful of the rich and multifaceted history of the coast as they are of natural landscapes, many of them restored, that now define so much of the region.
Contributors: William Boyd, S. Max Edelson, Edda L. Fields-Black, Christopher J. Manganiello, Tiya Miles, Janisse Ray, Mart A. Stewart, Drew A. Swanson, David Hurst Thomas, and Albert G. Way.

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Paul S. Sutter (Editor)
PAUL S. SUTTER is an associate professor of history at University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement.

Paul M. Pressly (Editor)
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Product details

Authors Paul (EDT)/ Pressly Sutter
Assisted by Paul Pressly (Editor), Paul M. Pressly (Editor), Paul Sutter (Editor), Paul S. Sutter (Editor)
Publisher The University of Georgia Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.07.2018
 
EAN 9780820351872
ISBN 978-0-8203-5187-2
No. of pages 384
Series Environmental History
Environmental History
Environmental History and the American South
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

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