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  • The Land of Cotton

    Culture, Landscape, and the Fabric of Southern History

    by James C. Giesen ...
    Series series Environmental History and the American South
    The Land of Cotton is a sweeping environmental and cultural history of cotton’s power in the American South. More than the region’s signature crop, cotton was a material, symbolic, economic, and ideological force. James C. Giesen’s central claim is that the culture of cotton—the ways planters, laborers, boosters, tourist boards, musicians, and a host of others representing the crop—shifted not ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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  • Boll Weevil Blues

    Cotton, Myth, and Power in the American South

    by James C. Giesen ...
    Between the 1890s and the early 1920s, the boll weevil slowly ate its way across the Cotton South from Texas to the Atlantic Ocean. At the turn of the century, some Texas counties were reporting crop losses of over 70 percent, as were areas of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. By the time the boll weevil reached the limits of the cotton belt, it had destroyed much of the region’s chief cash ... Read more

    $72.19 CAD

  • Bale After Bale

    How Cotton Defined the Twentieth-Century South

    by Professor Robert Jackson, James C. Giesen, Jarod Roll, Jarvis C. McInnis, Margaret Ronda, Adam Gussow, Adrienne Petty, Mark Smith ...
    Series series The American South Series
    From the cotton boll to the Cotton Bowl in modern American cultureThere are few places on earth as thoroughly identified with a crop as the American South is with cotton. Burgundy is known for wine, and Java has coffee. In the South, for most of its history, cotton was king. Through much of the twentieth century, cotton cultivation determined nearly every aspect of life in the region. In Bale ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Radioactive Dixie

    A Nuclear History of the American South

    by Caroline Peyton ...
    Series series Environmental History and the American South
    How and why did the South’s history, culture, and politics shape the region’s nuclear and energy industries? And how is that history linked to broader developments in the nuclear and energy industries—nationally and globally? Radioactive Dixie answers those questions as it traces the origins of the U.S. South’s love affair with the atom.The South contains more nuclear reactors than any other ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Food and Eating in America

    A Documentary Reader

    Edited by James C. Giesen, Bryant Simon ...
    Series series Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History
    Guides students through a rich menu of American history through food and eatingThis book features a wide and diverse range of primary sources covering the cultivation, preparation, marketing, and consumption of food from the time before Europeans arrived in North America to the present-day United States. It is organized around what the authors label the “Four P’s”—production, politics, price, and ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • From Swamp to Wetland

    The Creation of Everglades National Park

    by Chris Wilhelm ...
    Series series Environmental History and the American South
    This book chronicles the creation of Everglades National Park, the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States. This effort, which spanned 1928 to 1958, was of central importance to the later emergence of modern environmentalism. Prior to the park’s creation, the Everglades was seen as a reviled and useless swamp, unfit for typical recreational or development projects. The region’s unusual ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Poison Powder

    The Kepone Disaster in Virginia and Its Legacy

    by Gregory S. Wilson ...
    Series series Environmental History and the American South
    In 1975 workers at Life Science Products, a small makeshift pesticide factory in Hopewell, Virginia, became ill after exposure to Kepone, the brand name for the pesticide chlordecone. They made the poison under contract for a much larger Hopewell company, Allied Chemical. Life Science workers had been breathing in the dust for more than a year. Ingestion of the chemical made their bodies seize and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Bulldozer Revolutions

    A Rural History of the Metropolitan South

    by Andrew C. Baker ...
    Series series
    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 ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

  • Race and the Greening of Atlanta

    Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in an Ascendant Metropolis

    by Christopher C. Sellers ...
    Series series Environmental History and the American South
    Race and the Greening of Atlanta turns an environmental lens on Atlanta’s ascent to thriving capital of the Sunbelt over the twentieth century. Uniquely wide ranging in scale, from the city’s variegated neighborhoods up to its place in regional and national political economies, this book reinterprets the fall of Jim Crow as a democratization born of two metropolitan movements: a well-known one for ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

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    The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future

    by Jeff Goodell ...
    New York Times–Bestselling Author: "Should be ready by anyone who owns a microwave, or an iPod, or a table lamp, which is to say everyone." —Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth ExtinctionA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearCoal is still a significant source of power in the United States—and coal mining is still a deadly and environmentally destructive industry. Much of ... Read more

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  • Animal, Vegetable, Junk

    A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal: A Food Science Nutrition History Book

    by Mark Bittman ...
    "Epic and engrossing." —The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author and pioneering journalist, an expansive look at how history has been shaped by humanity’s appetite for food, farmland, and the money behind it all—and how a better future is within reach.The story of humankind is usually told as one of technological innovation and economic influence—of arrowheads ... Read more

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  • Science for Sale

    How the US Government Uses Powerful Corporations and Leading Universities to Support Government Policies, Silence Top Scientists, Jeopardize Our Health, and Protect Corporate Profits

    by David L. Lewis, PhD ...
    When Speaker Newt Gingrich greeted Dr. David Lewis in his office overlooking the National Mall, he looked at Dr. Lewis and said: “You know you’re going to be fired for this, don’t you?” “I know,” Dr. Lewis replied, “I just hope to stay out of prison.” Gingrich had just read Dr. Lewis’s commentary in Nature, titled “EPA Science: Casualty of Election Politics.” Three years later, and thirty years ... Read more

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