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In Gwinnett County's two hundred years, the area has been western,
southern, rural, suburban, and now increasingly urban. Its stories
include the displacement of Native peoples, white settlement, legal
battles over Indian Removal, slavery and cotton, the Civil War and
the Lost Cause, New South railroad and town development,
Reconstruction and Jim Crow, business development and finance in a
national economy, a Populist uprising and Black outmigration, the
entrance of women into the political arena, the evolution of cotton
culture, the development of modern infrastructure, and the
transformation from rural to suburban to a multicultural urbanizing
place. Gwinnett, as its chamber of commerce likes to say, has it
all. However, Gwinnett has yet to be the focus of a major
historical exploration-until now. Through a compilation of essays
written by professional historians with expertise in a diverse
array of eras and fields, Michael Gagnon and Matthew Hild's
collection finally tells these stories in a systematic way-avoiding
the pitfalls of nonprofessional local histories that tend to ignore
issues of race, class, or gender. While not claiming to be
comprehensive, this book provides general readers and scholars
alike with a glimpse at Gwinnett through the ages. CONTRIBUTORS:
Julia Brock, William D. Bryan, Richard A. Cook Jr., Lisa L.
Crutchfield, Michael Gagnon, Edward Hatfield, Keith S. Hebert,
Matthew Hild, R. Scott Huffard Jr., David L. Mason, Marko Maunula,
Erica Metcalfe, Katheryn L. Nikolich, David B. Parker, Bradley R.
Rice, and Carey Olmstead Shellman
Using the lens of environmental history, William D. Bryan provides
a sweeping reinterpretation of the post-Civil War South by framing
the New South as a struggle over environmental stewardship. For
more than six decades, scholars have caricatured southerners as so
desperate for economic growth that they rapaciously consumed the
region's abundant natural resources. Yet business leaders and
public officials did not see profit and environmental quality as
mutually exclusive goals, and they promoted methods of conserving
resources that they thought would ensure long-term economic growth.
Southerners called this idea "permanence." But permanence was a
contested concept, and these business people clashed with other
stakeholders as they struggled to find new ways of using valuable
resources. The Price of Permanence shows how these struggles
indelibly shaped the modern South. Bryan writes the region into the
national conservation movement for the first time and shows that
business leaders played a key role shaping the ideals of American
conservationists. This book also dismantles one of the most
persistent caricatures of southerners: that they had little
interest in environmental quality. Conservation provided white
elites with a tool for social control, and this is the first work
to show how struggles over resource policy fueled Jim Crow. The
ideology of "permanence" protected some resources but did not
prevent degradation of the environment overall, and The Price of
Permanence ultimately uses lessons from the New South to reflect on
sustainability today.
In Gwinnett County's two hundred years, the area has been western,
southern, rural, suburban, and now increasingly urban. Its stories
include the displacement of Native peoples, white settlement, legal
battles over Indian Removal, slavery and cotton, the Civil War and
the Lost Cause, New South railroad and town development,
Reconstruction and Jim Crow, business development and finance in a
national economy, a Populist uprising and Black outmigration, the
entrance of women into the political arena, the evolution of cotton
culture, the development of modern infrastructure, and the
transformation from rural to suburban to a multicultural urbanizing
place. Gwinnett, as its chamber of commerce likes to say, has it
all. However, Gwinnett has yet to be the focus of a major
historical exploration-until now. Through a compilation of essays
written by professional historians with expertise in a diverse
array of eras and fields, Michael Gagnon and Matthew Hild's
collection finally tells these stories in a systematic way-avoiding
the pitfalls of nonprofessional local histories that tend to ignore
issues of race, class, or gender. While not claiming to be
comprehensive, this book provides general readers and scholars
alike with a glimpse at Gwinnett through the ages. CONTRIBUTORS:
Julia Brock, William D. Bryan, Richard A. Cook Jr., Lisa L.
Crutchfield, Michael Gagnon, Edward Hatfield, Keith S. Hebert,
Matthew Hild, R. Scott Huffard Jr., David L. Mason, Marko Maunula,
Erica Metcalfe, Katheryn L. Nikolich, David B. Parker, Bradley R.
Rice, and Carey Olmstead Shellman
Using the lens of environmental history, William D. Bryan provides
a sweeping reinterpretation of the post - Civil War South by
framing the New South as a struggle over environmental stewardship.
For more than six decades, scholars have caricatured southerners as
so desperate for economic growth that they rapaciously consumed the
region's abundant natural resources. Yet business leaders and
public officials did not see profit and environmental quality as
mutually exclusive goals, and they promoted methods of conserving
resources that they thought would ensure long-term economic growth.
Southerners called this idea "permanence." But permanence was a
contested concept, and these businesspeople clashed with other
stakeholders as they struggled to find new ways of using valuable
resources. The Price of Permanence shows how these struggles
indelibly shaped the modern South. Bryan writes the region into the
national conservation movement for the first time and shows that
business leaders played a key role shaping the ideals of American
conservationists. This book also dismantles one of the most
persistent caricatures of southerners: that they had little
interest in environmental quality. Conservation provided white
elites with a tool for social control, and this is the first work
to show how struggles over resource policy fueled Jim Crow. The
ideology of "permanence" protected some resources but did not
prevent degradation of the environment overall, and The Price of
Permanence ultimately uses lessons from the New South to reflect on
sustainability today.
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