Bulldozer Revolutions - A Rural History of the Metropolitan South (Hardcover)

By examining the metropolitan fringes of Houston in Montgomery County, Texas, and Washington, D.C., in Loudoun County, Virginia, this book combines rural, environmental, and agricultural history to disrupt our view of the southern metropolis. Andrew C. Baker examines the local boosters, gentlemen farmers, historical preservationists, and nature-seeking suburbanites who abandoned the city to live in the metropolitan countryside during the twentieth century. These property owners formed the vanguard of the antigrowth movement that has defined metropolitan fringe politics across the nation. In the rural South, subdivisions, reservoirs, homesteads, and historical villages each obscured the troubling legacies of racism and rural poverty and celebrated a refashioned landscape. That landscape's historical and environmental "authenticity" served as a foil to the alienation and ugliness of suburbia. Using a source base that includes the records of preservation organizations and local, state, and federal government agencies, as well as oral histories, Baker explores the distinct roots of the environmental politics and the shifting relationship between city and country within these metropolitan fringe regions.

General

Imprint:	University of Georgia Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Environmental History and the American South Ser.
Release date:	October 2018
Authors:	Andrew C. Baker
Foreword by:	James C. Giesen
Series editors:	James C. Giesen
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-0-8203-5414-9
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Historical geography Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > General Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Urban & municipal planning > General
LSN:	0-8203-5414-7
Barcode:	9780820354149

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