Bulldozer Revolutions: A Rural History of the Metropolitan South (Environmental History and the American South) - Tapa blanda

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Baker, Andrew C.

 
9780820363646: Bulldozer Revolutions: A Rural History of the Metropolitan South (Environmental History and the American South)
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ISBN 10: 0820363642 ISBN 13: 9780820363646
Editorial: University of Georgia Press, 2022

Sinopsis

By examining the metropolitan fringes of Houston in Montgomery County, Texas, and Washington, D.C., in Loudoun County, Virginia, this book combines rural, environmental, and agricultural history to disrupt our view of the southern metropolis.

Andrew C. Baker examines the local boosters, gentlemen farmers, historical preservationists, and nature-seeking suburbanites who abandoned the city to live in the metropolitan countryside during the twentieth century. These property owners formed the vanguard of the antigrowth movement that has defined metropolitan fringe politics across the nation. In the rural South, subdivisions, reservoirs, homesteads, and historical villages each obscured the troubling legacies of racism and rural poverty and celebrated a refashioned landscape. That landscape’s historical and environmental “authenticity” served as a foil to the alienation and ugliness of suburbia. Using a source base that includes the records of preservation organizations and local, state, and federal government agencies, as well as oral histories, Baker explores the distinct roots of the environmental politics and the shifting relationship between city and country within these metropolitan fringe regions.

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ANDREW C. BAKER is an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University-Commerce.

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Editorial
University of Georgia Press
Año de publicación
2022
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0820363642
ISBN 13 
9780820363646
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
254
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9780820354149: Bulldozer Revolutions: A Rural History of the Metropolitan South (Environmental History and the American South)

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ISBN 10:  0820354147 ISBN 13:  9780820354149
Editorial: University of Georgia Press, 2018
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