William Thomas Okie (Georgia Kennesaw State University)

The Georgia Peach

Culture, Agriculture, and Environment in the American South

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Produktbeschreibung

This historical study shows how the peach emerged as a viable commodity precisely when the South was desperate for an improved reputation. The book joins a renaissance in writing about the food, agriculture, and environment of the American South.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies on the American South
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 158mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9781107071728
• ISBN-10: 1107071720
• Artikelnr.: 45154924

Autorenporträt

William Thomas Okie is Assistant Professor at Kennesaw State University, Georgia, where he teaches American history, food history, and history education. Trained in environmental and agricultural history at the University of Georgia, he has produced work that has won prizes from the Society of American Historians, the Southern Historical Association, and the Agricultural History Society. He has written for the journal Agricultural History and the Southern Foodways Alliance's quarterly, Gravy.

Inhaltsangabe

1. A wilderness of peach trees
2. The baron of pears
3. Elberta, you're a peach
4. A Connecticut Yankee in King Cotton's court
5. Rot and glut
6. Blossoms and hams
7. Under the trees.