Trembling Earth: A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp

by Megan Kate Nelson

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This 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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0820334197

ISBN13:9780820334196

Release Date:September 2009

Publisher:University of Georgia Press

Length:264 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.5" x 8.7"

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