The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South

by William D. Bryan

Book Overview

Using the lens of environmental history, William D. Bryan provides a sweeping reinterpretation of the post-Civil War South by framing the New South as a struggle over environmental stewardship. For more than six decades, scholars have caricatured southerners as so desperate for economic growth that they rapaciously consumed the region's abundant natural resources. Yet business leaders and public officials did not see profit and environmental quality...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820353396
• ISBN13: 9780820353395
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"