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portada Bulldozer Revolutions: A Rural History of the Metropolitan South (Environmental History and the American South Ser. ) (in English)
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2018
Language
English
Pages
254
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9780820354149
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Bulldozer Revolutions: A Rural History of the Metropolitan South (Environmental History and the American South Ser. ) (in English)

Andrew C. Baker (Author) · University Of Georgia Press · Hardcover

Bulldozer Revolutions: A Rural History of the Metropolitan South (Environmental History and the American South Ser. ) (in English) - Andrew C. Baker

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Synopsis "Bulldozer Revolutions: A Rural History of the Metropolitan South (Environmental History and the American South Ser. ) (in English)"

By examining the metropolitan fringes of Houston in Montgomery County, Texas, and Washington, D.C., in Loudoun County, Virginia, this book combines rural, environmental, and agricultural history to disrupt our view of the southern metropolis. Andrew C. Baker examines the local boosters, gentlemen farmers, historical preservationists, and nature-seeking suburbanites who abandoned the city to live in the metropolitan countryside during the twentieth century. These property owners formed the vanguard of the antigrowth movement that has defined metropolitan fringe politics across the nation. In the rural South, subdivisions, reservoirs, homesteads, and historical villages each obscured the troubling legacies of racism and rural poverty and celebrated a refashioned landscape. That landscape's historical and environmental "authenticity" served as a foil to the alienation and ugliness of suburbia. Using a source base that includes the records of preservation organizations and local, state, and federal government agencies, as well as oral histories, Baker explores the distinct roots of the environmental politics and the shifting relationship between city and country within these metropolitan fringe regions.

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