Contribution to Book
If John Muir Had Been an Agrarian: American Environmental History West and South
Environmental History and the American South: A Reader
(2009)
Abstract
This reader gathers fifteen of the most important essays written in the field of southern environmental history over the past decade. Ideal for course use, the volume provides a convenient entrée into the recent literature on the region as it indicates the variety of directions in which the field is growing. As coeditor Paul S. Sutter writes in his introduction, “recent trends in environmental historiography―a renewed emphasis on agricultural landscapes and their hybridity, attention to the social and racial histories of environmental thought and practice, and connections between health and the environment among them―have made the South newly attractive terrain. This volume suggests, then, that southern environmental history has not only arrived but also that it may prove an important space for the growth of the larger environmental history enterprise.”
Keywords
- Environmental history,
- American south
Disciplines
Publication Date
2009
Editor
Christopher Manganiello and Paul Sutter
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Series
Environmental History and the American South
Citation Information
Mart A. Stewart. "If John Muir Had Been an Agrarian: American Environmental History West and South" Environmental History and the American South: A Reader (2009) p. 196 - 219 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/mart_stewart/54/