The Slain Wood

The Slain Wood
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 371
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ISBN-10 : 9781421413310
ISBN-13 : 1421413310
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis The Slain Wood by : William Boyd

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.

Michigan State Police Journal

Michigan State Police Journal
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 786
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015080096475
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Michigan State Police Journal by : Milton R. Palmer

The Saturday Evening Post

The Saturday Evening Post
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 870
Release :
ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105007068187
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

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The Windsor Magazine

The Windsor Magazine
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 790
Release :
ISBN-10 : UOM:39015056987111
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis The Windsor Magazine by :

Killer in Drag

Killer in Drag
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Publisher : Thunder's Mouth Press
Total Pages : 164
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1568581203
ISBN-13 : 9781568581200
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Killer in Drag by : Ed Wood, Jr.

Meet Ed Wood's alter ego Glen/Glenda, whose ravishing beauty and musical voice bewitch every male in sight. Impeccably attired in either gender, hired assassin Glen becomes Glenda when it's time to work. But big trouble starts when Glenda decides to give up the murder racket, take up with a sugar daddy, and finance a sex change operation.

The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution

The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 800
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:HWB3IE
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (IE Downloads)

Synopsis The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution by : Benson John Lossing

This work is a pictorial history of the American Revolution.

The Naturalist

The Naturalist
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 760
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ISBN-10 : CORNELL:31924101121881
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

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William Faulkner and Southern History

William Faulkner and Southern History
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 539
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780195101294
ISBN-13 : 0195101294
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis William Faulkner and Southern History by : Joel Williamson

William Faulkner more than any other writer is intimately associated with the South about which he wrote. This book reveals the man and his family and the ways in which southern culture and his own life were wound around one another in his greatest works.

The Cabinet of Arts

The Cabinet of Arts
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 898
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:HW2BPR
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (PR Downloads)

Synopsis The Cabinet of Arts by : Hewson Clarke