An Environmental History of Northeast Florida (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series) [Hardcover]

James J. Miller (Author)

Book Description

Series: Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series | Publication Date: October 31, 1998

Early European descriptions of North America tell about a landscape and a variety of cultures in northeast Florida--a region that had been occupied by native people for more than 10,000 years--that were unlike anything the explorers and settlers had ever encountered. This story of the land and people in that region of the St. Johns River and the Atlantic coast covers 18,000 years--from the Ice Age to the first half of the 20th century. James Miller describes how natural features transformed and how cultural traditions of native people, as well as Spanish, English, and American colonists, developed in response to opportunities and constraints of the 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 experts. No comparable environmental history of any Florida region exists.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: University Press of Florida; 1st edition (October 31, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0813016002
• ISBN-13: 978-0813016009
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,046,183 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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