| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 420 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The Florida history and culture series
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Florida history and culture series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
This collection of essays surveys the environmental history of the Sunshine State, from Spanish exploration to the present. With 4 b&w figures. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Florida -- Environmental conditions.
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Florida. |
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Environmental conditions. |
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Environmental policy -- Florida -- History.
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Environmental policy. |
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History. |
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Environmental degradation -- Florida -- History.
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Environmental degradation. |
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Landscape changes -- Florida -- History.
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Landscape changes. |
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Wetland conservation -- Florida -- History.
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Wetland conservation. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Davis, Jack E., 1956-
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Arsenault, Raymond.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Paradise lost? Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2005 0813028264 (DLC) 2005042243 (OCoLC)58536222 |
| ISBN |
9780813040226 (electronic book) |
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0813040221 (electronic book) |
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0813028264 |
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9780813028262 |
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0813029627 |
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9780813029627 |
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