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Author Davis, Donald Edward

Title Where there are mountains : an environmental history of the southern Appalachians / Donald Edward Davis
Published Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 320 pages) : illustrations
Contents Apalatchi: Naming the mountains -- Mississippi: Native Appalachia -- Apalachee: Spanish Appalachia -- Kituah: Cherokee Appalachia -- Southwestern Mountains: Frontier Appalachia -- Alleghenia: Antebellum Appalachia -- Appalachia: Making the modern landscape -- Conclusion: Nature, culture, history
Summary Annotation A timely study of change in a complex environment, Where There Are Mountains explores the relationship between human inhabitants of the southern Appalachians and their environment. Incorporating a wide variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, the study draws information from several viewpoints and spans more than four hundred years of geological, ecological, anthropological, and historical development in the Appalachian region. The book begins with a description of the indigenous Mississippian culture in 1500 and ends with the destructive effects of industrial logging and dam building during the first three decades of the twentieth century. Donald Edward Davis discusses the degradation of the southern Appalachians on a number of levels, from the general effects of settlement and industry to the extinction of the American chestnut due to blight and logging in the early 1900s. This portrait of environmental destruction is echoed by the human struggle to survive in one of our nation's poorest areas. The farming, livestock raising, dam building, and pearl and logging industries that have gradually destroyed this region have also been the livelihood of the Appalachian people. The author explores the sometimes conflicting needs of humans and nature in the mountains while presenting impressive and comprehensive research on the increasingly threatened environment of the southern Appalachians
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-310) and index
Notes English
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Subject Human ecology -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Human ecology
Nature -- Effect of human beings on
Mensch
Umwelt
Siedlung
Écologie humaine -- États-Unis -- Appalaches -- Histoire.
Nature -- Effets de l'homme -- États-Unis -- Appalaches.
Southern Appalachian Region
Appalachen -- Süd
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 99023869
ISBN 9780820340210
0820340219
0820321257
9780820321257
1283031337
9781283031332
9786613031334
661303133X