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America's Wetland : An Environmental and Cultural History of Tidewater Virginia and North Carolina.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (271 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813929699
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: America's WetlandDDC classification:
  • 508.755/1
LOC classification:
  • QH105.V8S27 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Ice-Age Enclave -- 2 Relict Fauna -- 3 Water's Environmental Facets -- 4 Period of European Colonization -- 5 Agricultural History -- 6 Sturgeon, Herring, and Other Fisheries -- 7 Antebellum Golden Age: Transportation Canals -- 8 African American Experience -- 9 Armed Conflict: A Recurring Theme -- 10 Intracoastal Waterways: War Canals -- 11 Forests Then and Now -- 12 Droughts and Forest Fires -- 13 From Peat Mining to Wildlife Refuges -- 14 Lost Heritage: Last River Highway -- 15 Urbanization and Depopulation -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Summary: In so doing, he explores the effects of hurricanes, droughts, forest fires, and ice ages of the past--and anticipates, in this age of global warming, natural events that may be still to come.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Ice-Age Enclave -- 2 Relict Fauna -- 3 Water's Environmental Facets -- 4 Period of European Colonization -- 5 Agricultural History -- 6 Sturgeon, Herring, and Other Fisheries -- 7 Antebellum Golden Age: Transportation Canals -- 8 African American Experience -- 9 Armed Conflict: A Recurring Theme -- 10 Intracoastal Waterways: War Canals -- 11 Forests Then and Now -- 12 Droughts and Forest Fires -- 13 From Peat Mining to Wildlife Refuges -- 14 Lost Heritage: Last River Highway -- 15 Urbanization and Depopulation -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

In so doing, he explores the effects of hurricanes, droughts, forest fires, and ice ages of the past--and anticipates, in this age of global warming, natural events that may be still to come.

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