A Treatise on Turpentine Farming: Being a Review of Natural and Artificial Obstructions, with Their Results, in Which Many Erroneous Ideas Are Explode
A Treatise on Turpentine Farming: Being a Review of Natural and Artificial Obstructions, with Their Results, in Which Many Erroneous Ideas Are Explode

Author: G. W. Perry

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2018-02-17

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9781377886565

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A Treatise on Turpentine Farming
A Treatise on Turpentine Farming

Author: G. W. Perry

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2015-09-03

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9781341322402

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Tapping the Pines
Tapping the Pines

Author: Robert B. Outland III

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2004-12-01

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780807129814

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The extraction of raw turpentine and tar from the southern longleaf pine—along with the manufacture of derivative products such as spirits of turpentine and rosin—constitutes what was once the largest industry in North Carolina and one of the most important in the South: naval stores production. In a pathbreaking study that seamlessly weaves together business, environmental, labor, and social history, Robert B. Outland III offers the first complete account of this sizable though little-understood sector of the southern economy. Outland traces the South’s naval stores industry from its colonial origins to the mid-twentieth century, when it was supplanted by the rising chemicals industry. A horror for workers and a scourge to the Southeast’s pine forests, the methods and consequences of this expansive enterprise remained virtually unchanged for more than two centuries. With its exacting attention to detail and exhaustive research, Tapping the Pines is an essential volume for anyone interested in the piney woods South.

Looking for Longleaf
Looking for Longleaf

Author: Lawrence S. Earley

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2009-07

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 1442996978

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Covering 92 million acres from Virginia to Texas, the longleaf pine ecosystem was, in its prime, one of the most extensive and biologically diverse ecosystems in North America. Today these magnificent forests have declined to a fraction of their original extent, threatening such species as the gopher tortoise, the red-cockaded woodpecker, and the Venus fly-trap. Lawrence S. Earley explores the history of these forests and the astonishing biodiversity within them, drawing on extensive research and telling the story through first-person travel accounts and interviews with foresters, ecologists, biologists, botanists, and landowners. The compelling story Earley tells here offers hope that with continued human commitment, the longleaf pine might not just survive, but once again thrive.

American Lucifers
American Lucifers

Author: Jeremy Zallen

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2019-08-19

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1469653338

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The myth of light and progress has blinded us. In our electric world, we are everywhere surrounded by effortlessly glowing lights that simply exist, as they should, seemingly clear and comforting proof that human genius means the present will always be better than the past, and the future better still. At best, this is half the story. At worst, it is a lie. From whale oil to kerosene, from the colonial period to the end of the U.S. Civil War, modern, industrial lights brought wonderful improvements and incredible wealth to some. But for most workers, free and unfree, human and nonhuman, these lights were catastrophes. This book tells their stories. The surprisingly violent struggle to produce, control, and consume the changing means of illumination over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries transformed slavery, industrial capitalism, and urban families in profound, often hidden ways. Only by taking the lives of whalers and enslaved turpentine makers, match-manufacturing children and coal miners, night-working seamstresses and the streetlamp-lit poor—those American lucifers—as seriously as those of inventors and businessmen can the full significance of the revolution of artificial light be understood.

A Treatise on Turpentine Farming
A Treatise on Turpentine Farming

Author: G. W. Perry

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-23

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9780331360486

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Excerpt from A Treatise on Turpentine Farming: Being a Review of Natural and Artificial Obstructions, With Their Results, in Which Many Erroneous Ideas Are Exploded; With Remarks on the Best Method of Making Turpentine But why complain? This very feeling has presented itself in array for ages against men who have proved them selves the benefactors of their race men possessed of trans coudent abilities, to which I can make no pretension men whose works are destined to command the admiration of liberal minds until Time shall be no more. Galileo, Ful ton, Franklin, Merse, Daguerre these are names, among many others, who have been treated more as lunatics, and with disparagements such as would have crushed any other minds than those who believe, there is much undeveloped truth in the storehouse of N ature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.