| Description |
1 online resource (x, 333 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-319) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the view from the mountain -- The setting, the Cherokees, and the first era of Ducktown mining, 1843-1878 -- The revival of Ducktown mining and the first smoke suits, 1890-1903 -- The farmers and the copper companies wage battle in the Tennessee courts -- Georgia enters the fray -- The Ducktown desert and Georgia's first smoke suit -- Will Shippen, forestry, and Georgia's second smoke suit, 1905-1907 -- Attorney general Hart, the National Farmers Union, and the search for a remedy, 1907-1910 -- The smoke injunction and the great war, 1914-1918 -- Power dams, whitewater rafting, and the reclamation of the Ducktown desert, 1916-2010 -- Epilogue : the view from the mountain. |
| Summary |
In 'Ducktown Smoke', Duncan Maysilles offers a summary of the environmental devastation caused by sulfur dioxide pollution in a Southern Appalachian mountain basin in the late 19th century. A byproduct of the smelting practices of two copper mining giants operating in Tennessee, toxic smoke, combined with destructive logging by the industry, gradually laid waste to timber stocks and crops, most of which were in neighbouring Georgia. It also gave rise to decades of litigation - more than 250 private nuisance actions were filed against the copper companies in a 25-year period by residents, loggers, and farmers. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Liability for environmental damages -- Appalachian Region, Southern.
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Liability for environmental damages. |
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Southern Appalachian Region. |
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Liability for environmental damages -- Tennessee -- Ducktown (Polk County) Region.
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Tennessee. |
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Copper mines and mining -- Environmental aspects -- Tennessee -- Ducktown (Polk County) Region.
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Copper mines and mining -- Environmental aspects. |
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Copper mines and mining. |
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Georgia -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Georgia. |
| Indexed Term |
Ducktown Mining District |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Maysilles, Duncan. Ducktown smoke. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011 9780807834596 (DLC) 2010047549 (OCoLC)668197693 |
| ISBN |
9780807877937 (electronic book) |
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080787793X (electronic book) |
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9781469603155 (electronic book) |
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1469603152 (electronic book) |
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9780807834596 |
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0807834599 |
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