| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 488 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : colour illustrations, colour maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies series ; 2
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McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies series ; 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Fifth Line: A Farm Just Like Thousands of Others -- Part One The Land and What Happened to It. 1 The Land beyond Memory: Before 1500 ; 2 Stone Age Meets Iron -- and Smallpox: The 1500s and 1600s ; 3 Wilding the Land with War: The 1700s ; 4 Manufacturing the Land: The 1800s. |
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Part Two Voices of Nature Past. 5 Taking the Wildlife: 1500-1900 ; 6 Clearing the Wood: 1500-1900 ; 7 Taming the Unforested: Prairies, Alvars, Barrens, Cliffs, Bogs, and Fens ; 8 The True North: Three Centuries On. |
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Part Three Nature's Prospect. 9 Invasives: The Unintended Consequences of the Uninvited ; 10 Growing Cities, Changing Climates: The Next Conversion ; 11 Restoration: A New Native Landscape -- Afterword: Nature Never Repeats Itself. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human ecology -- Great Lakes Region (North America) -- History.
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Human ecology. |
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History. |
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Great Lakes Region (North America) -- Environmental conditions -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Riley, J.L. (John L.). Once and future Great Lakes country. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2013] 9780773541771 (OCoLC)843859500 |
| ISBN |
9780773589810 (electronic book) |
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0773589813 (electronic book) |
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9780773589827 |
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0773589821 |
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