| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Robert B. Outland III. Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2004. Pp. xii, 352. $47.95.
This is, quite simply, a fascinating book. It is deeply researched, vast in chronological scope, and Robert B. Outland III is clear and engaging whether discussing colonial mercantile policy, forest ecology, or the details of gum collection from longleaf pines. Economic historians, environmental historians, labor historians, historians of race relations and of the South, and any curious person will find much of interest in his fine account of a significant but poorly understood southern industry.	1
Although the term "naval stores" means little to most people today, in 1800 it referred to tar, turpentine, rosin, and pitch. Until the advent of steel ships, transoceanic commerce and sea-based military power owed much to tar, which came from pine trees. Tar was applied on rigging and masts to prevent rotting, and it also helped prevent rust on cannons. Having exhausted its domestic forests, England found itself dependent on foreign tar suppliers by the early seventeenth century. North American forests appeared to be the solution, and with ample bounties as incentive—and somewhat by default, as New Englanders cut down their forests and Virginians preferred to grow tobacco—North Carolina became the leading colonial producer of naval stores. Outland's discussion of this process includes analyses of Native American forest-burning practices, labor, transportation difficulties, and wartime disruptions.	. . .

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