Sandhill Cities; Metropolitan Ambitions in Augusts, Columbus, and Macon, Georgia

Langue : anglais

Edité par Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA, 2025

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xiv, [2], 272, [6] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. No dust jacket present. Illustrated front cover. Publisher's ephemera laid in. This is one of the Making the Modern South series. Mark Souther is a historian and a Professor of History and the Director of the Center for Public History + Digital Humanities at Cleveland State University. Broadly trained as a historian of the modern U.S. and the American South, he specializes in urban history. His research interests include city and regional planning, urban renewal, historic preservation, downtowns, and suburbs. Mark earned his Ph.D. in History in 2002 from Tulane University. Mark has published four books, including New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City, American Tourism: Constructing a National Tradition, co-edited with Nicholas Dagen Bloom, and Believing in Cleveland: Managing Decline in "The Best Location in the Nation". Sandhill Cities is a comparative history of Augusta, Columbus, and Macon, Georgia, in the twentieth century. Weaving together southern, urban, and environmental history, J. Mark Souther narrates urban boosters’ hopes and actions in their pursuit of metropolitan stature in three midsized cities situated along the fall line running through the middle of the state. It examines metropolitan and regional development in and around three midsize cities in the 20th century. These and other smaller cities, especially in the South have been neglected in U.S. urban history scholarship. This book is part of an emerging body of work that is exploring how the history of smaller cities forces a reframing of many assumptions in the field that sprang from scholarship weighted preponderantly toward the largest cities. Sandhill Cities focuses on the three cities along Georgia’s stretch of the fall line, the natural slope dividing the Piedmont from the coastal plain and also a boundary that largely shaped the growing social chasm between white and black. It covers primarily the 1910s-80s and examines the slow abandonment of these cities’ roles as markets, suppliers, and service centers for traditional agriculture dominated by cotton, their continued economic reliance on farm, forest, and mine products, and their pursuit of the hydroelectric and navigation possibilities of their rivers and the tourism and recreation potential of their landscape and climate. It also explores the impact of heavy militarization and the tension between the cities’ embrace of a romanticized, problematic history as a foundation for tourism and their efforts to lure diversified industrial, office, and healthcare investments. These cities were part of the emergence of the modern South and the nation’s transformation into a "consumer’s republic," but their leaders looked to the future on their own terms, tailoring their strategies in ways that revealed local preoccupations and the weight of tradition and social division. …

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Titre
Sandhill Cities; Metropolitan Ambitions in Augusts, Columbus, and Macon, Georgia
Auteur
Souther, J. Mark
Éditeur
Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA
Année de publication
2025
État de l'article
Very good
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Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0807184896
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780807184899
Illustrateur
Mary Lee Eggert (Maps)
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Presumed First Edition, First printing.

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