Description: These fifteen important essays provide entrée into the recent literature on the region as it indicates the variety of directions in which the field of environmental history is growing. The writings, which range in setting from the Texas plains to the Carolina Lowcountry, affirm the critical importance of human-environmental interactions.
Brief description: JACK TEMPLE KIRBY was the emeritus W. E. Smith Professor of American History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. His most recent books include Working the Garden: American Writers and the Industrialization of Agriculture and The Countercultural South (Georgia).
Review Quotes:
I applaud the editors for their efforts in pulling together this excellent collection. Geographically, chronologically, and topically, it offers good coverage of an incredibly diverse region and should be a boon to the study of southern people and the natural world they inhabit.
--Timothy Silver "author of Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains: An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America"