{"product_id":"trembling-earth-a-cultural-history-of-the-okefenokee-swamp","title":"Trembling Earth: A Cultural History Of The Okefenokee Swamp","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis innovative history of the Okefenokee Swamp reveals it as a place where harsh realities clashed with optimism  shaping the borderland culture of southern Georgia and northern Florida for over two hundred years. From the formation of the Georgia colony in 1732 to the end of the Great Depression  the Okefenokee Swamp was a site of conflict between divergent local communities. Coining the term ?ecolocalism to describe how local cultures form out of ecosystems and in relation to other communities  Megan Kate Nelson offers a new view of the Okefenokee  its inhabitants  and its rich and telling record of thwarted ambitions  unintended consequences  and unresolved questions. The Okefenokee is simultaneously terrestrial and aquatic  beautiful and terrifying  fertile and barren. This peculiar ecology created discord as human groups attempted to overlay firm lines of race  gender  and class on an area of inherent ambiguity and blurred margins. Rice planters  slaves  fugitive slaves  Seminoles  surveyors  timber barons  Swampers  and scientists came to the swamp with dreams of wealth  freedom  and status that conflicted in varied and complex ways. Ecolocalism emerged out of these conflicts between communities within the Okefenokee and other borderland swamps. Nelson narrates the fluctuations  disconnections  and confrontations embedded in the muck of the swamp and the mire of its disorderly history  and she reminds us that it is out of such places of intermingling and uncertainty that cultures are forged.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44948589838389,"sku":"ByrdShop_0820326771","price":452.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780820326771.jpg?v=1770052733","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/trembling-earth-a-cultural-history-of-the-okefenokee-swamp","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}