| Ducktown Smoke: The Fight over One of the South's Greatest Environmental Disasters Contributor(s): Maysilles, Duncan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1469629879 ISBN-13: 9781469629872 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $37.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - Law | Environmental - Law | Legal History |
| Dewey: 333.765 |
| LCCN: 2010047549 |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.16 lbs) 344 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Cultural Region - Appalachians - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Tennessee - Topical - Ecology |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: It is hard to make a desert in a place that receives sixty inches of rain each year. But after decades of copper mining, all that remained of the old hardwood forests in the Ducktown Mining District of the Southern Appalachian Mountains was a fifty-square mile barren expanse of heavily gullied red hills--a landscape created by sulfur dioxide smoke from copper smelting and destructive logging practices. In Ducktown Smoke, Duncan Maysilles examines this environmental disaster, one of the worst the South has experienced, and its impact on environmental law and Appalachian conservation. Beginning in 1896, the widening destruction wrought in Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina by Ducktown copper mining spawned hundreds of private lawsuits, culminating in Georgia v. Tennessee Copper Co., the U.S. Supreme Court's first air pollution case. In its 1907 decision, the Court recognized for the first time the sovereign right of individual states to protect their natural resources from transborder pollution, a foundational opinion in the formation of American environmental law. Maysilles reveals how the Supreme Court case brought together the disparate forces of agrarian populism, industrial logging, and the forest conservation movement to set a legal precedent that remains relevant in environmental law today. |
Contributor Bio(s): Maysilles, Duncan: - Duncan Maysilles is a lawyer and a historian. He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of North Carolina, his law degree at Duke University, and his doctorate in history at the University of Georgia. |