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The Slain Wood: Papermaking and Its Environmental Consequences in the American South
Bill Buford (Ed.)
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Description for The Slain Wood: Papermaking and Its Environmental Consequences in the American South
Hardback. It shows how the industry's massive pollution loads significantly disrupted local environments and communities, leading to a long struggle to regulate and control that pollution. Series: Studies in Industry and Society. Num Pages: 376 pages, 20, 7 black & white illustrations, 4 maps, 9 graphs. BIC Classification: HBJK; PDX; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 642.
When the paper industry moved into the South in the 1930s, it confronted a region in the midst of an economic and environmental crisis. Entrenched poverty, stunted labor markets, vast stretches of cutover lands, and severe soil erosion prevailed across the southern states. By the middle of the twentieth century, however, pine trees had become the region's number one cash crop, and the South dominated national and international production of pulp and paper based on the intensive cultivation of timber. In The Slain Wood, William Boyd chronicles the dramatic growth of the pulp and paper industry in the American South ... Read more
When the paper industry moved into the South in the 1930s, it confronted a region in the midst of an economic and environmental crisis. Entrenched poverty, stunted labor markets, vast stretches of cutover lands, and severe soil erosion prevailed across the southern states. By the middle of the twentieth century, however, pine trees had become the region's number one cash crop, and the South dominated national and international production of pulp and paper based on the intensive cultivation of timber. In The Slain Wood, William Boyd chronicles the dramatic growth of the pulp and paper industry in the American South ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Industry and Society
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421418780
SKU
V9781421418780
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About Bill Buford (Ed.)
William Boyd is an associate professor of law at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
Reviews for The Slain Wood: Papermaking and Its Environmental Consequences in the American South
This excellent book contributes most robustly to economic and environmental history, but it will be read profitably by scholars interested in political change, regulatory regimes, and race and labor...[an] insightful analysis of the paper industry's important role in the twentieth-century South. The trees slain for this book sacrificed their well-engineered lives for a good cause. American Historical Review Boyd provides ... Read more