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Slain Wood Papermaking and Its Environmental Consequences in the American South

Boyd, William
Innbundet / 2015 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781421418780
Publisert
2015-12-31
Utgiver
Vendor
Johns Hopkins University Press
Vekt
635 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
29 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
376

Forfatter
Boyd, William

Om bidragsyterne

William Boyd is an associate professor of law at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

Slain Wood Papermaking and Its Environmental Consequences in the American South

Boyd, William
Innbundet / 2015 / Engelsk
Boyd, William
Innbundet / 2015 / Engelsk
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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 a comprehensive and scholarly analysis of a vital industry in an era of substantive regional change. Choice ... Tremendous value as a legal history situated within broader political, historical, economic, and social context. North Carolina Historical Review Slain Wood is an important contribution to promoting understanding of the transformations borne by the Southern regional landscape in the twentieth century. The work is carefully researched and critically related, with a distinctive emphasis on the legal framework guiding transformation of Southern papermaking. AAG Review of Books William Boyd bring such analysis to the American South in a significant contribution to both southern and environmental history... this book is a welcome cross-disciplinary bridge between economic, legal, and environmental history that successfully explains the fundamental historical importance of this understudied industry H-Net Reviews This is a magisterial study of a relatively poorly understood world. To tell it well, Boyd takes seriously the many historiographical layers of the story, using business, technological, labor, legal, and environmental history approaches. The synthesis of these overlapping tales is a huge achievement and his beautiful writing make the book a powerful read. It could well stand as a model for future industrial-environmental historians. Journal of Southern History Overall, Boyd illustrates the double-edged sword that is economic development; its jobs and prosperity often inflict a devastating impact on the non-human and human environments. Boyd makes plain that "the smell of prosperity" is an odor whose costs should be weighed more carefully than Governor Wallace's glib analysis suggests. Environmental History

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 during the twentieth century and the social and environmental changes that accompanied it. Drawing on extensive interviews and historical research, he tells the fascinating story of one of the region's most important but understudied industries. The Slain Wood reveals how a thoroughly industrialized forest was created out of a degraded landscape, uncovers the ways in which firms tapped into informal labor markets and existing inequalities of race and class to fashion a system for delivering wood to the mills, investigates the challenges of managing large paper making complexes, and details the ways in which mill managers and unions discriminated against black workers. It also 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.
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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.
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Industrializing the Southern Forest2. Logging the Mills3. Making Paper4. Appropriating the Environment5. New South, New NatureNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
A terrific, strikingly original piece of scholarship, The Slain Wood offers readers a sophisticated and empirically rich account of the creation and evolution of the Southern pulp and paper industry. William Boyd's fine prose deftly blends agricultural, environmental, and industrial history with engrossing comparisons and connections.—Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, coeditor of A Way Forward: Building a Globally Competitive South
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A terrific, strikingly original piece of scholarship, The Slain Wood offers readers a sophisticated and empirically rich account of the creation and evolution of the Southern pulp and paper industry. William Boyd's fine prose deftly blends agricultural, environmental, and industrial history with engrossing comparisons and connections. -- Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, coeditor of A Way Forward: Building a Globally Competitive South
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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 a comprehensive and scholarly analysis of a vital industry in an era of substantive regional change. Choice ... Tremendous value as a legal history situated within broader political, historical, economic, and social context. North Carolina Historical Review Slain Wood is an important contribution to promoting understanding of the transformations borne by the Southern regional landscape in the twentieth century. The work is carefully researched and critically related, with a distinctive emphasis on the legal framework guiding transformation of Southern papermaking. AAG Review of Books William Boyd bring such analysis to the American South in a significant contribution to both southern and environmental history... this book is a welcome cross-disciplinary bridge between economic, legal, and environmental history that successfully explains the fundamental historical importance of this understudied industry H-Net Reviews This is a magisterial study of a relatively poorly understood world. To tell it well, Boyd takes seriously the many historiographical layers of the story, using business, technological, labor, legal, and environmental history approaches. The synthesis of these overlapping tales is a huge achievement and his beautiful writing make the book a powerful read. It could well stand as a model for future industrial-environmental historians. Journal of Southern History Overall, Boyd illustrates the double-edged sword that is economic development; its jobs and prosperity often inflict a devastating impact on the non-human and human environments. Boyd makes plain that "the smell of prosperity" is an odor whose costs should be weighed more carefully than Governor Wallace's glib analysis suggests. Environmental History

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 during the twentieth century and the social and environmental changes that accompanied it. Drawing on extensive interviews and historical research, he tells the fascinating story of one of the region's most important but understudied industries. The Slain Wood reveals how a thoroughly industrialized forest was created out of a degraded landscape, uncovers the ways in which firms tapped into informal labor markets and existing inequalities of race and class to fashion a system for delivering wood to the mills, investigates the challenges of managing large paper making complexes, and details the ways in which mill managers and unions discriminated against black workers. It also 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.
Les mer
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.
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Industrializing the Southern Forest2. Logging the Mills3. Making Paper4. Appropriating the Environment5. New South, New NatureNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
A terrific, strikingly original piece of scholarship, The Slain Wood offers readers a sophisticated and empirically rich account of the creation and evolution of the Southern pulp and paper industry. William Boyd's fine prose deftly blends agricultural, environmental, and industrial history with engrossing comparisons and connections.—Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, coeditor of A Way Forward: Building a Globally Competitive South
Les mer
A terrific, strikingly original piece of scholarship, The Slain Wood offers readers a sophisticated and empirically rich account of the creation and evolution of the Southern pulp and paper industry. William Boyd's fine prose deftly blends agricultural, environmental, and industrial history with engrossing comparisons and connections. -- Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, coeditor of A Way Forward: Building a Globally Competitive South
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781421418780
Publisert
2015-12-31
Utgiver
Vendor
Johns Hopkins University Press
Vekt
635 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
29 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
376

Forfatter
Boyd, William

Om bidragsyterne

William Boyd is an associate professor of law at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

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