Today is the 50th anniversary of the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act. To mark this important milestone we have put out a new edition of Reid Harris’s And the Coastlands Wait: How the Grassroots Battle to Save Georgia’s Marshlands Was Fought—and Won. Below is President Carter’s foreword outlining just why the law was so important. Additionally,…
Catch up on your reading with the UGA Press Summer Sale and get 40% off all books during the month of June! Today we’re highlighting books on the state of Georgia. Take a look at some of our best Georgia titles below, and use code 08JUNE40 at checkout to get 40% off. You can buy…
On Friday evening, November 16, The Book Lady Bookstore, The University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant, Coastal WildScapes, and The UGA Willson Center of Humanities and Arts will present a special lecture as part of the Skidaway Institute’s Evening @ Skidaway Series. André Joseph Gallant, author of…
Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture is a collection of papers presented at the 2016 Ossabaw Foundation symposium, outlining the environmental history of this island as well as others along the Georgia coast.
In honor of Earth Day the University of Georgia Press interviewed Paul S. Sutter and Paul M. Pressly, editors of the forthcoming Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture: Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast, due out this July. Paul S. Sutter is a professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the author of…
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