Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies: Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South (Environmental History and the American South Ser.)
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (999 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0820334014 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Author Chaser said Great Story about Providence Canyon in Georgia!!! :-). Excellent book and it has inspired me to visit Providence Canyon, so I am looking forward to some day making it there!!! Met the author at one of his talks here in Atlanta and enjoyed his presentation!!! :-). "Let us now praise famous gullies" according to Clare O'Beara. I found this an interesting look at the land and its history. The Grand Canyon demonstrates the power of erosion of a mighty river, over aeons; the Providence Canyon however came about swiftly through ill-thought farming practices after homesteaders took over the land from Creek Native people in Georgia. While I've visited the Grand Canyon I'd never heard of this smaller relative. Looking at the craggy, continually eroding gullies of marine sedimentary soil, we have to say th
(Al Hester H-Net Reviews)Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies is not light reading, but the book is essential to those interested in the history of geologic surveys and soil conservation from a national perspective, and it is vital to the understanding of a lost economy based on farming, and of how an economically depressed area might rise from the gullies to reinvent itself. This is one of the finest local environmental histories we have, and it offers important insights for all of us today. Johansen Choice)Public historians will be particularly pleased to read Sutter’s arguments for i
. PAUL S. He is the author of Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement. SUTTER is an associate professor of history at University of Colorado, Boulder
Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia’s “Little Grand Canyon,” preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. While little known today, Providence Canyon enjoyed a modicum of fame in the 1930s. More than that, though, the book is a meditation on the ways in which our persistent mental habit of separating nature from culture has stunted our ability to appreciate places like Providence Canyon and to understand the larger history of American conservation.. It is a park that protects the scenic results of an environmental disaster. During that decade, local boosters attempted to have Providence Canyon protected as a national park, insisting that it was natural. At the same time, national and international soil experts and other environmental reformers used Providence Canyon as the apotheosis of human, and particularly southern, land abuse.Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies uses the unlikely story of Providence Canyonand the 1930s contest over its origins and meani