Larding The Lean Earth

Author : Steven Stoll
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466805620

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Larding the Lean Earth by Steven Stoll Pdf

A major history of early Americans' ideas about conservation Fifty years after the American Revolution, the yeoman farmers who made up a large part of the new country's voters faced a crisis. The very soil of American farms seemed to be failing, and agricultural prosperity, upon which the Republic was founded, was threatened. Steven Stoll's passionate and brilliantly argued book explores the tempestuous debates that erupted between "improvers," who believed in practices that sustained and bettered the soil of existing farms, and "emigrants," who thought it was wiser and more "American" to move westward as the soil gave out. Stoll examines the dozens of journals, from New York to Virginia, that gave voice to the improvers' cause. He also focuses especially on two groups of farmers, in Pennsylvania and South Carolina. He analyzes the similarities and differences in their farming habits in order to illustrate larger regional concerns about the "new husbandry" in free and slave states. Farming has always been the human activity that most disrupts nature, for good or ill. The decisions these early Americans made about how to farm not only expressed their political and social faith, but also influenced American attitudes about the environment for decades to come. Larding the Lean Earth is a signal work of environmental history and an original contribution to the study of antebellum America.

Author : Peter Morris
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803207363

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Level Playing Fields by Peter Morris Pdf

Ben-Zion Gold's memoir brings to life the world of a million Jews in pre-World War II Poland who were later destroyed by the Nazis. Warmly recalling the relationships, rituals, observances, and celebrations, Gold evokes the sense of family and faith that helped him through the catastrophe that followed.

Author : Paul S. Sutter
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820334011

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies by Paul S. Sutter Pdf

Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia’s “Little Grand Canyon,” preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. It is a park that protects the scenic results of an environmental disaster. While little known today, Providence Canyon enjoyed a modicum of fame in the 1930s. During that decade, local boosters attempted to have Providence Canyon protected as a national park, insisting that it was natural. At the same time, national and international soil experts and other environmental reformers used Providence Canyon as the apotheosis of human, and particularly southern, land abuse. Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies uses the unlikely story of Providence Canyon—and the 1930s contest over its origins and meaning—to recount the larger history of dramatic human-induced soil erosion across the South and to highlight the role that the region and its erosive agricultural history played in the rise of soil science and soil conservation in America. More than that, though, the book is a meditation on the ways in which our persistent mental habit of separating nature from culture has stunted our ability to appreciate places like Providence Canyon and to understand the larger history of American conservation.

Author : James G. Krueger
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532654800

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The Disfiguration of Nature by James G. Krueger Pdf

Good stewardship of nature and the earth—those foundations upon which life depends—is our most pressing challenge, requiring a monumental and relentlessly single-minded unity of purpose. Yet in America, the cause of conservation suffers while the political Left and Right conduct an endless tug of war. The result is stalemate and inaction. James Krueger shows how this state of affairs stems from a widespread—and unnecessary—confusion in thinking about conservation. He explores the movement’s beginnings and its profound and enduring connection with such traditional pro-life and pro-family values of stability, self-discipline, morality, and community, which could again be called upon to undergird a robust conservationist ethic. At the same time, Krueger embarks on a provocative questioning of values dear to the liberal Left—having to do with gender, family, economics, and individual rights—to ask whether these are not, at their core, violently opposed to the very nature liberal-minded people claim to champion and protect. The Disfiguration of Nature invites us to disconnect from our destructive illusions about both nature and ourselves in favor of a humble yet constructive—and eventually powerful—understanding, the kind that can create a desperately needed common ground in service of our shared American landscape and the promise of sound human culture upon it.

Author : Lisa M. Brady
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820342498

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War Upon the Land by Lisa M. Brady Pdf

"War upon the land is not merely an environmental history of the war ... Instead, Brady's is a book about how the Civil War engaged with, and forever altered, a suite of nineteenth-century American ideas about nature ... Thus [it] examines the place of wilderness in the history of the Civil War, and as importantly, the place of the Civil War in the history of wilderness"--Foreword.

Author : Ben Kiernan
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Crimes against humanity
ISBN : 9780522854770

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Blood and Soil by Ben Kiernan Pdf

For thirty years Benedict Kiernan has been deeply involved in the study of genocide and crimes against humanity. He has played a key role in unearthing confidential documentation of the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge. His writings have transformed our understanding not only of twentieth-century Cambodia but also of the historical phenomenon of genocide. This new bookandmdash;the first global history of genocide and extermination from ancient timesandmdash;is among his most important achievements. Kiernan examines outbreaks of mass violence from the classical era to the present, focusing on worldwide colonial exterminations and twentieth-century case studies including the Armenian genocide, the Nazi Holocaust, Stalin's mass murders, and the Cambodian and Rwandan genocides. He identifies connections, patterns, and features that in nearly every case gave early warning of the catastrophe to come: racism or religious prejudice, territorial expansionism, and cults of antiquity and agrarianism. The ideologies that have motivated perpetrators of mass killings in the past persist in our new century, says Kiernan. He urges that we heed the rich historical evidence with its telltale signs for predicting and preventing future genocides.

Author : Mark D. Hersey
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820338705

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My Work Is That of Conservation by Mark D. Hersey Pdf

Hersey shows that in the hands of pioneers like Carver, Progressive Era agronomy was actually considerably "greener" than is often thought today. He uses Carver's life story to explore aspects of southern environmental history and to place this important scientist within the early conservation movement.

Author : Kimberly K. Smith
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780700632664

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African American Environmental Thought by Kimberly K. Smith Pdf

African American intellectual thought has long provided a touchstone for national politics and civil rights, but, as Kimberly Smith reveals, it also has much to say about our relationship to nature. In this first single-authored book to link African American and environmental studies, Smith uncovers a rich tradition stretching from the abolition movement through the Harlem Renaissance, demonstrating that black Americans have been far from indifferent to environmental concerns. Beginning with environmental critiques of slave agriculture in the early nineteenth century and evolving through critical engagements with scientific racism, artistic primitivism, pragmatism, and twentieth-century urban reform, Smith highlights the continuity of twentieth-century black politics with earlier efforts by slaves and freedmen to possess the land. She examines the works of such canonical figures as Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Alain Locke, all of whom wrote forcefully about how slavery and racial oppression affected black Americans' relationship to the environment. Smith's analysis focuses on the importance of freedom in humans' relationship with nature. According to black theorists, the denial of freedom can distort one's relationship to the natural world, impairing stewardship and alienating one from the land. Her pathbreaking study offers the first linkage of the early conservation movement to black history, the first detailed description of black agrarianism, and the first analysis of scientific racism as an environmental theory. It also offers a new way to conceptualize black politics by bringing into view its environmental dimension, as well as a normative environmental theory grounded in pragmatism and aimed at identifying the social conditions for environmental virtue. Smith's work offers a new approach to established writers and thinkers and shows that they justly deserve a place in the canon of American environmental thought. African American Environmental Thought enriches our understanding of black politics and environmental history, and of environmental theory in general. Because slavery and racism have shaped the meaning of the American landscape, this body of thought offers us fresh conceptual resources by which we can make better sense of our world.

Author : Andrew C. Isenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190673482

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The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History by Andrew C. Isenberg Pdf

This book explores the methodology of environmental history, with an emphasis on the field's interaction with other historiographies such as consumerism, borderlands, and gender. It examines the problem of environmental context, specifically the problem and perception of environmental determinism, by focusing on climate, disease, fauna, and regional environments. It also considers the changing understanding of scientific knowledge.

Author : Daegan Miller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226336312

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This Radical Land by Daegan Miller Pdf

“The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness, draining swamps, straightening rivers, peopling the solitude, and subduing nature,” wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. That’s largely how we still think of nineteenth-century America today: a country expanding unstoppably, bending the continent’s natural bounty to the national will, heedless of consequence. A country of slavery and of Indian wars. There’s much truth in that vision. But if you know where to look, you can uncover a different history, one of vibrant resistance, one that’s been mostly forgotten. This Radical Land recovers that story. Daegan Miller is our guide on a beautifully written, revelatory trip across the continent during which we encounter radical thinkers, settlers, and artists who grounded their ideas of freedom, justice, and progress in the very landscapes around them, even as the runaway engine of capitalism sought to steamroll everything in its path. Here we meet Thoreau, the expert surveyor, drawing anticapitalist property maps. We visit a black antislavery community in the Adirondack wilderness of upstate New York. We discover how seemingly commercial photographs of the transcontinental railroad secretly sent subversive messages, and how a band of utopian anarchists among California’s sequoias imagined a greener, freer future. At every turn, everyday radicals looked to landscape for the language of their dissent—drawing crucial early links between the environment and social justice, links we’re still struggling to strengthen today. Working in a tradition that stretches from Thoreau to Rebecca Solnit, Miller offers nothing less than a new way of seeing the American past—and of understanding what it can offer us for the present . . . and the future.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X000027694

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Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : John Payne Collier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Literary forgeries and mystifications
ISBN : OXFORD:590248052

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Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays by John Payne Collier Pdf

Author : John Payne Collier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000118174

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Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays, from Early Manuscript Corrections in a Copy of the Folio 1632, in the Authors Possession by John Payne Collier Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare,John Payne Collier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10749520

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The Works by William Shakespeare,John Payne Collier Pdf

Author : John Payne Collier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X001585976

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Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays from Early Manuscript Corrections in a Copy of the Folio by John Payne Collier Pdf