Coastal Nature Coastal Culture Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast Environmental History and the American South 1st edition by Paul S Sutter, Paul M Pressly, William Boyd, S Max Edelson, Edda L Fields Black, Christopher Manganiello, Tiya Miles, Janisse Ray, Sarah V Ross, Mart A Stewart, David Hurst Thomas, Professor Albert G Way ISBN 0820353698 978-0820353692

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ISBN 10: 0820353698

ISBN 13: 978-0820353692

Author: Paul S. Sutter, Paul M. Pressly, William Boyd, S. Max Edelson, Edda L. Fields-Black, Christopher Manganiello, Tiya Miles, Janisse Ray, Sarah V. Ross, Mart A. Stewart, David Hurst Thomas, Professor Albert G. Way

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 

Table of contents: 

1. Islands, Edges, and Globe: The Environmental History of the Georgia Coast

2. Deep History of the Georgia Coast: A View from St. Catherines Island

3. Visualizing the Southern Frontier: Cartography and Colonization in Eighteenth-Century Georgia

4. Lowcountry Creoles: Coastal Georgia and South Carolina Environments and the Making of the Gullah Geechee

5. Haunted Waters: Stories of Slavery, Coastal Ghosts, and Environmental Consciousness

6. A Rhetoric of Ruin: Imagining and Reimagining the Georgia Coast

7. Longleaf Pine, from Forest to Fiber: Production, Consumption, and the Cutover on Georgia’s Coastal Plain, 1865–1900

8. Water Is for Fighting Over: Papermaking and the Struggle over Groundwater in Coastal Georgia, 1930s–2002s

9. The Gold Standard: Sunbelt Environmentalism and Coastal Protection

10. “The Majestic Scene East-ward”: Sense of Place in the Literature of the Georgia Coast

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