Liquid Landscape : : Geography and Settlement at the Edge of Early America / / Michele Currie Navakas.
In Florida, land and water frequently change places with little warning, dissolving homes and communities along with the very concepts of boundaries themselves. While Florida's landscape of saturated swamps, shifting shorelines, coral reefs, and tiny keys initially impeded familiar strategies o...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 34 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. Porous Foundations
- Chapter 1. Liquid Landscape: Estuary, Marsh, Sink, Spring, Shore
- Chapter 2. Island Nation: Shoal, Isle, Islet
- Chapter 3. Wrecker Empire: Harbor, Rock, Reef, Key, Gulf
- Chapter 4. Florida Marronage: Everglades, Swamp, Savannah, Hammock
- Chapter 5. Florida Roots: Scrub-Palmetto and Orange
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgements