Bücher der Reihe Environmental History and the American South Series

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. 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.

A distinctive feature of the Georgia coast is its deep and diverse human history. In this book, editors Paul Sutter and Paul Pressly have brought together work from historians and environmental writers and activists that explores how nature and culture have coexisted and interacted across five millennia along the Georgia coast.

A distinctive feature of the Georgia coast is its deep and diverse human history. In this book, editors Paul Sutter and Paul Pressly have brought together work from historians and environmental writers and activists that explores how nature and culture have coexisted and interacted across five millennia along the Georgia coast.

There is clear overlap in interests and influences for the fields of Atlantic, environmental, and southern history, but scholarship in them has often advanced on parallel tracks. This anthology places itself at the intersection, pushing for a new confluence.

There is clear overlap in interests and influences for the fields of Atlantic, environmental, and southern history, but scholarship in them has often advanced on parallel tracks. This anthology places itself at the intersection, pushing for a new confluence.