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The Slain Wood: Papermaking and Its Environmental Consequences in the American South Уильям Бойд
ISBN: 1421418789, 9781421418780 Год издания: 2015 Издательство: Johns Hopkins University Press Язык: Английский 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…