The Gulf : the making of an American sea
Record details
- ISBN: 087140866X
- ISBN: 9780871408662
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Physical Description:
x, 592 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-564) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue : history, nature, and a forgotten sea -- Introduction : birth -- Part one. Estuaries, and the lie of the land and sea : aborigines and colonizing Europeans. Mounds -- El golfo de México -- Unnecessary death -- A most important river, and a "magnificent" bay -- Part two. Sea and sky : American debuts in the nineteenth century. Manifest destiny -- A fishy sea -- The wild fish that tamed the coast -- Birds of a feather, shot together -- Part three. Preludes to the future. From bayside to beachside -- Oil and the Texas toe dip -- Oil and the Louisiana plunge -- Islands, shifting sands of time -- Wind and water -- Part four. Saturation and loss : post-1945. The growth coast -- Florida worry, Texas slurry -- Rivers of stuff -- Runoff, and runaway -- Sand in the hourglass -- Losing the edge -- Epilogue : a success story amid so much else. |
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Subject: | Mexico, Gulf of Environmental conditions Mexico, Gulf of History Nature Effect of human beings on Mexico, Gulf of Environmental degradation Mexico, Gulf of Human ecology Mexico, Gulf of |
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- 17 of 17 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Iredell County Public Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Statesville Main Library | 909.096364 DAV (Text) | 33114018031831 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |