Paradise lost?: the environmental history of Florida
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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Gainesville University Press of Florida c2005
Schriftenreihe:Florida history and culture series
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Between topos and the terrain : a brief survey of Florida environmental writing, 1513-1821 / Thomas Hallock -- An eighteenth-century flower child : William Bartram / Charlotte M. Porter -- A naturalist's place : Archie Carr and the nature of Florida / Frederick R. Davis -- "Improving" paradise : the Civilian Conservation Corps and environmental change in Florida / Dave Nelson -- Water, water everywhere / Christopher F. Meindl -- The Everglades and the Florida dream / David McCally -- The trials and tribulations of Amos Quito : the creation of the Florida Anti-Mosquito Association / Gordon Patterson -- "Nature's navels" : an overview of the many environmental histories of Florida citrus / Christian Warren -- The public storm : hurricanes and the state in twentieth-century America / Raymond Arsenault -- Alligators and plume birds : the despoliation of Florida's living aesthetic / Jack E. Davis -- Blasting through paradise : the construction and consequences of the Tamiami Trail / Gary Garrett -- Lake Apopka : from natural wonder to unnatural disaster / Nano Riley -- "Conservation is now a dead word" : Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the transformation of American environmentalism / Jack E. Davis -- A "monstrous desecration" : dredge and fill in Boca Ciega Bay / Bruce Stephenson -- "We must free ourselves ... from the tattered fetters of the booster mentality" : Big Cypress Swamp and the politics of environmental protection in 1970s Florida / Gordon E. Harvey -- "The big ditch" : the rise and fall of the cross-Florida barge canal / Lee Irby
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 420 p.)
ISBN:9780813040226
0813040221
0813028264
9780813028262
0813029627
9780813029627

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