Join us as we celebrate the release of awa rd-winning author Bart Elmore's latest book\, \;Country Capitalism : How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Plan et. \;Nick Breyfogle\, Associate Professor of History at OSU and the Director of the Harvey Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching\, wi ll moderate the discussion.
\nAbout the Author: \;Bart Elmore is an award-winning author of \;Citizen Coke: The M
aking of Coca-Cola Capitalism \;(W.W. Norton\, 2015) and \;
About the Book: \;The rural roads that led to our planet-changing global economy ran through the Ameri can South. That region&rsquo\;s impact on the interconnected histories of business and ecological change is narrated here by acclaimed scholar Bart Elmore\, who uses the histories of five southern firms&mdash\;Coca-Cola\, Delta Airlines\, Walmart\, FedEx\, and Bank of America&mdash\;to investiga te the environmental impact of our have-it-now\, fly-by-night\, buy-on-cre dit economy. Drawing on exclusive interviews with company executives\, cor porate archives\, and other records\, Elmore explores the historical\, eco nomic\, and ecological conditions that gave rise to these five trailblazin g corporations. He then considers what each has become: an essential prese nce in the daily workings of the global economy and an unmistakable contri butor to the reshaping of the world&rsquo\;s ecosystems. Even as businesse s invest in sustainability initiatives and respond to new calls for corpor ate responsibility\, Elmore shows the limits of their efforts to &ldquo\;g reen&rdquo\; their operations and offers insights on how governments and a ctivists can push corporations to do better...This book is a must-read for anyone who hopes to create an ecologically sustainable future economy.
\nAbout the Moderator: \;Nick Breyfogle is an Ass ociate Professor of History at OSU and Director of the Harvey Goldberg Cen ter for Excellence in Teaching. He is a specialist in the history of Russi a/Soviet Union as well as in global environmental and water history. \ ;
\nHe is the author of \;Heretics and Colonizers: Forging R ussia&rsquo\;s Empire in the South Caucasus \;(2005)\, which was awarded the Ohio Academy of History Outstanding Publication Award\, 2006\; and editor/co-editor of \;Hydraulic Societies: Water\, Power\, an d Control in East and Central Asian History \;(2023)\; Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History \;(2021)\,&nb sp\;Nature at War: American Environments and World War II \;( 2020)\; \;Readings in Water History \;(2020)\; \; Eurasian Environments: Nature and Ecology in Imperial Russian and Soviet H istory \;(2018)\; and \;Peopling the Russian Periphery: B orderland Colonization in Eurasian History \;(2007).
\nBrey fogle has also worked extensively in the field of Public History. Since 20 07\, he has been co-editor of the online magazine/podcast/video channel&nb sp\;Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective\, https://origins.osu.edu\, \;A Well-I nformed People\, \;https://www.a w-ip.org/\, and most recently of \;Picturing Black History\, \;https://www.pic turingblackhistory.org/.
\nHe is currently completing two book p rojects\, &ldquo\;Baikal: the Great Lake and its People&rdquo\; and &ldquo \;Water: A Human History.&rdquo\;
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