This project is an environmental and cultural history of the sandhills region of North Carolina as it was transformed after the Civil War. It brings together agricultural science and the creation of a leisure industry in the sandhills to argue that they were interdependent in the transformation of the region. Chapter One narrates the gradual emergence and transformation of agricultural science in North Carolina from a venture of learned planters to a state-run institution, located in universities and government buildings, but still heavily influenced by the heirs of planters. Chapter Two examines the trajectory of resort creation in the sandhills after the region had been tapped out and cutover by naval stores producers and loggers. Its remained an agricultural problem area, while its acres of sandy land were available to be remade by developers. Importantly these new investors, like Pinehurst’s James and Leonard Tufts, reconstructed the sandhills to reflect a fantasy of yeoman agriculture—while deploying scientific findings and commercial fertilizers as advocated by state agricultural experts. Chapter Three analyzes a community that developed in the vicinity of Pinehurst after 1910, when a generation of idealistic Northern progressives turned to the sandhills, both to uplift the region and to escape the nervous problems they had experienced in the industrial North. Just as Pinehurst used agricultural science to create a leisure landscape, this group of Ivy Leaguers was inspired by visions of using agricultural technologies to turn the “sand barrens” into a state-of-the-art farmscape. Chapter Four turns to a literary account of the sandhills in the work of Charles Chesnutt, taking Chesnutt’s motif of gift-giving as a lens for understanding the author’s short stories set in the sandhills. This chapter focuses especially on Chesnutt’s conception of usufruct and an economy based in local social connections as an alternative to the version of commodity agriculture that had animated so many other projects in the sandhills. This dissertation reveals how the conceptual and material tools of an industrializing culture reconfigured this region, long seen as barren, from a cutover turpentine district into a tourist paradise.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2015-12-17T13:03:57Z No. of bitstreams: 1 adalbertoalvesdemattos.pdf: 1619624 bytes, checksum: 3dd923acb6d474c6abe3697b5a2395c7 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2015-12-17T17:59:45Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 adalbertoalvesdemattos.pdf: 1619624 bytes, checksum: 3dd923acb6d474c6abe3697b5a2395c7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-12-17T17:59:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 adalbertoalvesdemattos.pdf: 1619624 bytes, checksum: 3dd923acb6d474c6abe3697b5a2395c7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-21 / A Escola Agrícola União Indústria criada em 1869 foi o resultado de uma série de políticas e discussões que objetivavam a modernização da agricultura nacional, o contexto de mudanças impulsionou a criação de vários centros especializados em agricultura na segunda metade do século XIX. Mencionamos o conjunto de medidas tomas, que possibilitaram a fundação de diversas empresas e instituições ligadas a agricultura, a principal indústria brasileira da época e principal fonte de receita do estado Imperial. Foram criadas nesse contexto a partir do final dos anos de 1850 e início dos anos de 1860 vários Imperiais Institutos de Agricultura, como o, Imperial Instituto Fluminense, O Imperial Instituto Baiano, O Imperial Instituto Pernambucano, O Imperial Instituto Sergipano e O Imperial Instituto Rio-grandense. Paralelamente aos institutos a fundação de diversas companhias ligadas ao capital privado como a Companhia União Indústria. Essa empresa fundada por Mariano Procópio Ferreira Lage esteve à frente da fundação da Escola Agrícola União Indústria, a primeira escola de estudos clássicos inaugurada no ano de 1869. Radicada na província de Minas Gerais, no municio de Juiz de Fora, esta instituição seria a concretização de um desejo manifestado pelo governo Imperial desde a chegada da família real ao Brasil em 1808 e que só encontrou suas vias de fato após determinação contratual recebida pela Companhia União indústria no ano de 1864. A partir dessa condição Mariano Procópio Ferreira Lage, fundador e presidente da Companhia União Indústria, inicia um série de pesquisas na Europa buscando cumprir a exigência contratual que previa a fundação de uma escola prática em agricultura, as escolhas e estratégias de criação dessa instituição corroboraram para fundação de um instituto que superou as expectativas do governo Imperial, pois a própria determinação contratual previa a fundação de uma escola prática em agricultura, mas o que se observou foi a inauguração de um instituto de estudos clássicos em agricultura, a primeira escola desse gênero no Brasil. Nosso objetivo é estudar a parcela de contribuição da primeira Escola Agrícola de estudos Clássicos do Brasil, revelando suas estratégias de afirmação e políticas de promoção da ciência agrícola, traçando um paralelo entre as políticas e de estado relacionadas à agricultura e as atividades da Companhia União Indústria na segunda metade do século XIX. / The Agricultural School Union Industry created in 1869 was the result of a series of policies and discussions that aimed to modernize the national agriculture, the context changes spurred the creation of several centers specializing in agriculture in the second half of the nineteenth century. We mentioned all the measures doses, which enabled the foundation of various companies and institutions related to agriculture, the main Brazilian industry at the time and main source of the Imperial state revenue. Were created in this context from the late 1850's and early 1860 several Imperial Institutes of Agriculture, as the Imperial Fluminense Institute, The Imperial Baiano Institute, The Imperial Institute of Pernambuco, Sergipe The Imperial Institute and The Imperial River Institute Rio-grandense. In parallel to the institutes the foundation of several companies linked to private capital as the Company Industry Association. This company founded by Mariano Procópio Ferreira Lage headed the foundation's Agricultural Industry Union School, the first school of classical studies inaugurated in 1869. Rooted in the province of Minas Gerais, in Juiz de Fora Municio, this institution would be the realization a wish expressed by the Imperial government since the arrival of the royal family to Brazil in 1808 and only found his blows after contractual settlement received by the Company Union industry in the year 1864. From this condition Mariano Procópio Ferreira Lage, founder and president Industry Union Company, starts a series of surveys in Europe seeking to meet the contractual requirement which provided the foundation of a practical school in agriculture, the choices and creating strategies that institution corroborated for founding an institute that exceeded expectations of the Imperial government, for the very contractual determination provided the foundation for a practical school in agriculture, but what we observe is the opening of an institute of classical studies in agriculture, the first school of its kind in Brazil. Our goal is to study the share of contribution of the first Agricultural School of Classical Studies in Brazil, revealing his assertion strategies and policies to promote agricultural science, drawing a parallel between the political and state related to agriculture and the Company's activities Industry Association in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-10T17:55:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcelo Hansen Schlachta.pdf: 1050445 bytes, checksum: 83ca026878c5b28fdbefb387b9da5678 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-08-22 / This study concerns a contemporary reading of experiences carved within the Landless Workers` Movement (LWM) formation process analyzing how agroecology is thought, while a political practice of collective confrontation, suggesting a contraposition to transgenic food as well as to the agri-business. Concomitantly, it is highlighted how the agroecology engenders a production and social organizational modal in the Landless` campsites upholding respect to the environment with the objective of generating income for the rural workers. These central issues will be approached from diverse experience lived by the individuals that struggle for the land and Agricultural Reform. For this research the Antônio Companheiro Tavares campsite, located in the city of São Miguel do Iguaçu and comprised of 79 families, was chosen. This site is held as reference in agroecology by the LWM. From contradictions evidenced in the organization processes of different forms of work and farming, as well as the way they were lived by the members utilizing daily life experiences, we analyzed how, in the process of struggling for land and agriculture reform, a movement political culture aimed to protected practices and environmental recuperation was engendered based on the cultural references of the way of life of landless workers embroidered in their life experiences and in their relation with other social entities when outlining the LWM. Thus, the research focus mainly on the social experience of the rural workers questioning how this experience processes itself in the set of relations, how it is established in the lively process by the historical subjects and their functions that engraft feelings and movement to organizing their own work and in relation to the LWM itself / Este estudo trata de uma leitura contemporânea das experiências tecidas no interior do processo de formação do MST, analisando como a agroecologia passa a ser pensada enquanto uma prática política de enfrentamento coletivo, oferecendo uma contraposição aos trangênicos, bem como ao agronegócio. Concomitantemente, procuramos evidenciar como a agroecologia engendra um modelo de organização social e da produção nos assentamentos, primando pelo respeito ao meio-ambiente e tendo por objetivo a geração de renda aos trabalhadores rurais. Estas questões centrais serão abordadas a partir da diversidade de experiências vividas pelos sujeitos que lutam pela terra e pela Reforma Agrária. Para a pesquisa optou-se pela escolha do Assentamento Antônio Companheiro Tavares, no município de São Miguel do Iguaçu, que possui 79 famílias assentadas na área e é tido pelo MST enquanto referência em Agroecologia. A partir das contradições evidenciadas nos processos de organização das diferentes formas de trabalho e cultivo, bem como do modo que foram vividas pelos assentados, no fazer-se das experiências da vida cotidiana, analisamos como, no processo de luta pela terra e pela reforma agrária, se engendrou uma cultura política de movimento que se volta para práticas de proteção e recuperação do meio-ambiente, a partir das referências culturais do modo de vida dos trabalhadores sem-terra, tecidas em suas experiências de vida e nas relações com outros sujeitos sociais e entidades, no fazer-se do MST. Assim, a pesquisa tem por principal enfoque a experiência social dos trabalhadores rurais, problematizando como essa experiência se processa no conjunto das relações, como se constitui no processo vivido pelos sujeitos históricos e suas ações, que imprimem sentidos e movimentos à organização do seu próprio trabalho e também em relação ao próprio MST