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the American South, –(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, ), –
.
. Howard W. Odum,Southern Regions of the United States(Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, ), .
. Ibid., .
. Rupert Vance, ‘‘Is Agrarianism for Farmers?’’Southern Review():–,
reprinted with an introduction in John Shelton Reed and Daniel Joseph Singal, eds.,
Regionalism and the South: Selected Papers of Rupert Vance(Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, ), – (quotations, ).
. Rupert Vance,All These People: The Nation’s Human Resources in the South
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, ), esp. –. On Odum and
Sanger, see his letter to her,  April , box , Howard W. Odum Papers, Southern
Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
. Arthur Raper,Tenants of the Almighty(New York: Macmillan, ), v (Thomas’s
poem); Raper,Preface to Peasantry: A Tale of Two Black Belt Counties(; New York:
Atheneum, ). Further evidence of Raper’s ecological consciousness, I think, is the
large collection of Farm Security Administration pamphlets and photographs on soil
erosion and conservation, and Raper’s own notes on the ‘‘Dust Bowl’’ in his papers.
See the Farm Security Administration files and ‘‘Unarranged Notes—Dust Bowl,’’ in the
Arthur F. Raper Papers, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill. The following paragraph on the inadequacy of New Deal tenant programs
and the failure of self-sufficiency in food is summarized from Kirby,Rural Worlds Lost,
–, –.
. Craige,Eugene Odum, , repeats his story about ‘‘studying plumbing.’’ Worster,
Nature’s Economy,.
. See Craig,Eugene Odum. Also Eugene P. Odum, ‘‘The Emergence of Ecology as a
New Integrative Discipline,’’Science,  March , –, which recounts his frus-
tration as would-be teacher of ecology at Georgia.
. Howard T. Odum,Environment, Power, and Society(New York: Wiley-Intersci-
ence, ), viii. Eugene P. Odum’sEcology: A Bridge between Science and Society(Sunder-
land, Mass.: Sinauer Associates, ), appeared in earlier editions from the same pub-
lisher under a different title,Ecology and Our Endangered Life-Support Systems.
. On the paradigm break, see Donald Worster, ‘‘Ecology of Order and Chaos,’’En-
vironmental History Review (Spring/Summer ): –.
. Joel B. Hagen,An Entangled Bank: The Origins of Ecosystem Ecology(New Bruns-
wick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, ).
. Odum,Ecology, esp. –. See also E. P. Odum, ‘‘When to Confront and When
to Cooperate,’’INTECOL Bulletin (): –, which Golley also cites in hisPrimer
for Environmental Literacy, –. (On Gene Odum’s demeanor and opinion regard-
ing the new ‘‘disturbance’’ and ‘‘patch’’ paradigm, I observed moments as suggested
during a slight acquaintanceship with him, beginning in , and several of Odum’s
own acquaintances and colleagues reinforced and elaborated on my impression.)


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