America's wetland : an environmental and cultural history of tidewater Virginia and North Carolina / / Roy T. Sawyer.
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 260 p. :; ill., map. |
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Table of Contents:
- Ice-age enclave
- Relict fauna
- Water's environmental facets
- Period of European colonization
- Agricultural history
- Sturgeon, herring, and other fisheries
- Antebellum golden age : transportation canals
- African American experience
- Armed conflict : a recurring theme
- Intracoastal waterways : war canals
- Forests then and now
- Droughts and forest fires
- From peat mining to wildlife refuges
- Lost heritage : last river highway
- Urbanization and depopulation.