Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies - Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South

Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext Providence Canyon State Park preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies uses the unlikely story of Providence Canyon - and the 1930s contest over its origins and meaning - to recount the larger history of dramatic human-induced soil erosion across the US south. Zusammenfassung This study uses the unlikely story of Georgia's Providence Canyon to recount the larger history of dramatic human-induced soil erosion across the South and to highlight the role that the region and its erosive agricultural history played in the rise of soil science and soil conservation in America.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Paul Sutter, Paul S Sutter, Paul S. Sutter
• Con la collaborazione di: James Giesen (Editore)
• Editore: The University of Georgia Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9780820334011
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3401-1
• Pagine: 264
• Serie: Environmental History; Environmental History; Environmental History and the American South
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Economia aziendale