Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture - Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Georgia Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Environmental History and the American South Series
Release date:	May 2018
Editors:	Paul S. Sutter • Paul M. Pressly
Contributors:	William Boyd • S. Max Edelson • Edda L. Fields-Black • Christopher Manganiello • Tiya Miles • Janisse Ray • Sarah Ross • Mart A. Stewart
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	384
ISBN-13:	978-0-8203-5187-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	0-8203-5187-3
Barcode:	9780820351872

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