The Price of Permanence

The Price of Permanence
Author: William D. Bryan
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2018-08-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0820353388


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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 as mutually exclusive goals, and they promoted methods of conserving resources that they thought would ensure long-term economic growth. Southerners called this idea "permanence." But permanence was a contested concept, and these businesspeople clashed with other stakeholders as they struggled to find new ways of using valuable resources. The Price of Permanence shows how these struggles indelibly shaped the modern South. Bryan writes the region into the national conservation movement for the first time and shows that business leaders played a key role shaping the ideals of American conservationists. This book also dismantles one of the most persistent caricatures of southerners: that they had little interest in environmental quality. Conservation provided white elites with a tool for social control, and this is the first work to show how struggles over resource policy fueled Jim Crow. The ideology of "permanence" protected some resources but did not prevent degradation of the environment overall, and The Price of Permanence ultimately uses lessons from the New South to reflect on sustainability today.


The Price of Permanence
Language: en
Pages: 254
Authors: William D. Bryan
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-01 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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Pages: 254
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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