{"product_id":"what-nature-suffers-to-groe-mart-a-stewart-9780820324593","title":"What Nature Suffers to Groe: Life, Labor, and Landscape on the Georgia Coast, 1680-1920","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"What Nature Suffers to Groe\"\u003c\/i\u003e explores the mutually transforming relationship between environment and human culture on the Georgia coastal plain between 1680 and 1920. Each of the successive communities on the coast--the philanthropic and imperialistic experiment of the Georgia Trustees, the plantation culture of rice and sea island cotton planters and their slaves, and the postbellum society of wage-earning freedmen, lumbermen, vacationing industrialists, truck farmers, river engineers, and New South promoters--developed unique relationships with the environment, which in turn created unique landscapes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe core landscape of this long history was the plantation landscape, which persisted long after its economic foundation had begun to erode. The heart of this study examines the connection between power relations and different perceptions and uses of the environment by masters and slaves on lowcountry plantations--and how these differing habits of land use created different but interlocking landscapes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNature also has agency in this story; some landscapes worked and some did not. Mart A. Stewart argues that the creation of both individual and collective livelihoods was the consequence not only of economic and social interactions but also of changing environmental ones, and that even the best adaptations required constant negotiation between culture and nature. In response to a question of perennial interest to historians of the South, Stewart also argues that a \"sense of place\" grew out of these negotiations and that, at least on the coastal plain, the \"South\" as a place changed in meaning several times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mart A. Stewart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820324590\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820324593\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/23\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 7.70w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2004 pg. 71","brand":"Mart A. Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990402990335,"sku":"9780820324593","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c3a90ee1-50c2-4a82-ad0b-79e1aca71f93.jpg?v=1683304471","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/what-nature-suffers-to-groe-mart-a-stewart-9780820324593","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}