James Miller describes how natural features and cultural traditions were transformed and influenced by each other. Native Americans as well as Spanish, English, and American colonists developed unique cultural responses to opportunities and constraints of a changing environment. With an unusually broad scope in time, space, and subject matter, he uses the example of northeast Florida to explore the notion of environmental equilibrium, to illustrate the fallacy of a pristine environment, and to show how essential environmental history is to modern ecological planning.
Fully illustrated with 25 photographs and 40 maps and written in an accessible style that synthesizes material usually accessible only to specialists, the book will appeal to general readers and policy planners as well as specialists. No comparable environmental history of any Florida region exists.
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James Miller describes how natural features and cultural traditions were transformed and influenced by each other. Native Americans as well as Spanish, English, and American colonists developed unique cultural responses to opportunities and constraints of a changing environment. With an unusually broad scope in time, space, and subject matter, he uses the example of northeast Florida to explore the notion of environmental equilibrium, to illustrate the fallacy of a pristine environment, and to show how essential environmental history is to modern ecological planning.
Fully illustrated with 25 photographs and 40 maps and written in an accessible style that synthesizes material usually accessible only to specialists, the book will appeal to general readers and policy planners as well as specialists. No comparable environmental history of any Florida region exists.
Imprint | University Press of Florida |
Country of origin | United States |
Series | Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P.Bullen Series |
Release date | 1998 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | 1998 |
Authors | James J Miller |
Foreword by | Jerald T. Milanich |
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover |
Pages | 320 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8130-1600-9 |
Barcode | 9780813016009 |
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LSN | 0-8130-1600-2 |