(Library ebook) Leman This Land, This South: An Environmental History (New Perspectives on the South)
♛ Albert E. Cowdrey ♛
| #4585612 in Books | 1995-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.75 x6.50 x1.00l, | File Name: 0813119332 | 240 pages
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A Captivating History|By C.M. Duncan|This Land, This South chronologically covers Southern environmental history in a thorough, well written and captivating manner. The evolution of the relationship between humans and the rest of Southern ecosystem is especially well covered and remarkably objective. The epilogue felt out of place but did not detract much from the reading. I a||"If one's spirit is bound to the land in some southern past, this book will stir deep feeling."―Georgia Historical Quarterly|"In this history, revised from a 1983 version, Albert Cowdrey fills a gap in the environmental history of the Americas."―
Here is the story of the long interaction between humans, land, and climate in the American South. It is a tale of exploitation and erosion, of destruction, disease, and defeat, but also of the persistent search for knowledge and wisdom. It is a story whose villains were also its victims and sometimes its heroes. Ancient forces created the southern landscape, but, as Albert E. Cowdrey shows, humankind from the time of earliest habitation has been at work reshaping it. T...
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