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The Once and Future Great Lakes Country : An Ecological History.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: McGill-Queen's Rural, Wildland, and Resource StudiesPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (545 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773589810
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Once and Future Great Lakes CountryDDC classification:
  • 304.2/09713
LOC classification:
  • GF512.G74.R56 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Measurements and Currencies -- Photo Section I -- Photo Section II -- Foreword by Ramsay Cook -- Introduction: The Fifth Line: A Farm Just Like Thousands of Others -- Part One: The Land and What Happened to It -- 1 The Land beyond Memory: Before 1500 -- 2 Stone Age Meets Iron - and Smallpox: The 1500s and 1600s -- 3 Wilding the Land with War: The 1700s -- 4 Manufacturing the Land: The 1800s -- Part Two: Voices of Nature Past -- 5 Taking the Wildlife: 1500-1900 -- 6 Clearing the Wood: 1500-1900 -- 7 Taming the Unforested: Prairies, Alvars, Barrens, Cliffs, Bogs, and Fens -- 8 The True North: Three Centuries On -- Part Three: Nature's Prospect -- 9 Invasives: The Unintended Consequences of the Uninvited -- 10 Growing Cities, Changing Climates: The Next Conversion -- 11 Restoration: A New Native Landscape -- Afterword: Nature Never Repeats Itself -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: A passionate, wide-ranging history of the landscapes around the Great Lakes.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Measurements and Currencies -- Photo Section I -- Photo Section II -- Foreword by Ramsay Cook -- Introduction: The Fifth Line: A Farm Just Like Thousands of Others -- Part One: The Land and What Happened to It -- 1 The Land beyond Memory: Before 1500 -- 2 Stone Age Meets Iron - and Smallpox: The 1500s and 1600s -- 3 Wilding the Land with War: The 1700s -- 4 Manufacturing the Land: The 1800s -- Part Two: Voices of Nature Past -- 5 Taking the Wildlife: 1500-1900 -- 6 Clearing the Wood: 1500-1900 -- 7 Taming the Unforested: Prairies, Alvars, Barrens, Cliffs, Bogs, and Fens -- 8 The True North: Three Centuries On -- Part Three: Nature's Prospect -- 9 Invasives: The Unintended Consequences of the Uninvited -- 10 Growing Cities, Changing Climates: The Next Conversion -- 11 Restoration: A New Native Landscape -- Afterword: Nature Never Repeats Itself -- Notes -- References -- Index.

A passionate, wide-ranging history of the landscapes around the Great Lakes.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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