Paradise Lost?

The Environmental History of Florida
Herausgeber: Davis, Jack Emerson; Arsenault, Raymond

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays surveys the environmental history of the Sunshine State, from Spanish exploration to the present, and provides an organized, detailed overview of the reciprocal relationship between human and Florida's unique peninsular ecology. It is divided into four thematic sections: explores and naturalists; science, technology, and public policy: despoliation: and conservationists and environments. The contributors describe the evolving environmental policies and practices of the state and federal governments and the dynamic interaction between the Florida environment and many social and cultural groups including the Spanish, English, Americans, southerners, northerners, men, and women. They have applied historical methodology and also drawn on the methodologies of the fields of political science, cultural anthropology, and sociology. Of obvious value to environmentalists and general readers interested in Florida's history, exploration, and development, the book will also serve as a solid introduction to the subject for undergraduates and graduate students.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Florida
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 166mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 762g
• ISBN-13: 9780813028262
• ISBN-10: 0813028264
• Artikelnr.: 22447317

Autorenporträt

Jack E. Davis is associate professor of history at University of Florida and author of The Wide Brim: Early Poems and Ponderings of Marjory Stoneman Douglas (UPF) and Race Against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez since 1930. Raymond Arsenault is the John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History and director of the University Honors College at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, and author of St. Petersburg and the Florida Dream, 1888-1950 (UPF).