Engineering and Mining Journal
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Published: 1889
Total Pages: 1384
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Published: 1889
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Drew A. Swanson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2018-11-15
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 0820353973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature. The region operated alternately as frontier, wilderness, rural hinterland, region of subsistence agriculture, bastion of yeoman farmers, and place to experiment with modernization. In these various takes on the southern mountains, scattered across time and space, both mountain residents and outsiders consistently believed that the region’s environment made Appalachia distinctive, for better or worse. With chapters dedicated to microhistories focused on particular commodities, Drew A. Swanson builds upon recent Appalachian studies scholarship, emphasizing the diversity of a region so long considered a homogenous backwater. While Appalachia has a recognizable and real coherence rooted in folkways, agriculture, and politics (among other things), it is also a region of varied environments, people, and histories. These discrete stories are, however, linked through the power of conceptualizing nature and work together to reveal the ways in which ideas and uses of nature often created a sense of identity in Appalachia. Delving into the environmental history of the region reveals that Appalachian environments, rather than separating the mountains from the broader world, often served to connect the region to outside places.
Author: Barry McGowan
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 316
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Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2010-08-24
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 0374707200
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile—rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands. Not since William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis has a historian so skillfully applied John Muir's insight—"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe"—to the telling of the history of the American West. Beautifully told, this is western environmental history at its finest.
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Published: 1904
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKVols. for 1933-1936 include "The Law journal supplement to the New Zealand law reports."
Author: Yale University. Library. Yale Collection of Western Americana
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 642
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 140
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 64
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 680
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 676
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