Author: William Boyd
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421413310
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
The paper industry rejuvenated the American South—but took a heavy toll on its land and people. 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 papermaking 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.
The Slain Wood
Author: William Boyd
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421413310
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
The paper industry rejuvenated the American South—but took a heavy toll on its land and people. 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 papermaking 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.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421413310
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
The paper industry rejuvenated the American South—but took a heavy toll on its land and people. 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 papermaking 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.
The Bristling Wood
Author: Katharine Kerr
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0307760375
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
“A sure winner.”—Booklist Against the passionate sweep of Deverrian history, the powerful wizard Nevyn has lived for centuries, atoning for the sins he committed in his youth. Now, with so much of his work at stake, Nevyn discovers that the Dark Council has been quietly interfering with the already tangled politics of war-torn Eldidd. Their evil webs are nearly spun before Nevyn, with all the power at his command, even realizes there’s a war of magic destroying his world. Katharine Kerr’s enthralling tales Daggerspell and Darkspell introduced readers to the kingdom of Deverry, a world where ancient gods gamble with the fates of nations, and where the souls of men and women persist beyond death. Now the dazzling fantasy saga continues with The Bristling Wood, a vast and intricate tapestry of conflict, intrigue, and high magic that transcends the bounds of time and space.
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0307760375
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
“A sure winner.”—Booklist Against the passionate sweep of Deverrian history, the powerful wizard Nevyn has lived for centuries, atoning for the sins he committed in his youth. Now, with so much of his work at stake, Nevyn discovers that the Dark Council has been quietly interfering with the already tangled politics of war-torn Eldidd. Their evil webs are nearly spun before Nevyn, with all the power at his command, even realizes there’s a war of magic destroying his world. Katharine Kerr’s enthralling tales Daggerspell and Darkspell introduced readers to the kingdom of Deverry, a world where ancient gods gamble with the fates of nations, and where the souls of men and women persist beyond death. Now the dazzling fantasy saga continues with The Bristling Wood, a vast and intricate tapestry of conflict, intrigue, and high magic that transcends the bounds of time and space.
The Nocturnal Minstrel; Or, the Spirit of the Wood. A Romance
Author: Eleanor Sleath
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Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Wallace: the hero of Scotland ... [A novel.] With ... wood engravings, drawn by George Standfast
Author: Gabriel ALEXANDER
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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The Beauties of the Poets of Great Britain ... with Engravings on Wood
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Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Pages : 412
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The Pilgrim's Progress ... A New Edition, Ornamented with Six Elegant Wood Engravings
Author: John Bunyan
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Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Languages : en
Pages : 308
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The Collected Works of William Morris: The wood beyond the world. Child Christopher. Old French romances
Author: William Morris
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Category : Socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Category : Socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The History of Napoleon Buonaparte. With Engravings on Steel and Wood. Two Volumes. Vol. 1. [-2.]
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Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Pages : 406
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The Pilgrim's Progress ... Stereotype Edition Ornamented with Six Elegant Engravings on Wood, Designed and Executed by Clennell
Author: John Bunyan
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Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Whisperings in the wood, Finland idyls for children, from the Swed. [Läsning för barn] by A. Alberg
Author: Zacharias Topelius
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Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Languages : en
Pages : 274
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