Early European descriptions of North America tell about a landscape and a variety of cultures in northeast Floridaa region that had been occupied by native people for more than 10,000 yearsthat 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 yearsfrom 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.
James J. Miller, state archaeologist of Florida and chief of the Bureau of Archaeological Research, is the coauthor of An Atlas of Maritime Florida and has published widely in the fields of cultural resource management and Florida archaeology.
Early European descriptions of North America tell about a landscape and a variety of cultures in northeast Floridaa region that had been occupied by native people for more than 10,000 yearsthat 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 yearsfrom 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.
James J. Miller, state archaeologist of Florida and chief of the Bureau of Archaeological Research, is the coauthor of An Atlas of Maritime Florida and has published widely in the fields of cultural resource management and Florida archaeology.
An Environmental History of Northeast Florida
240An Environmental History of Northeast Florida
240Hardcover
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780813016009 |
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Publisher: | University Press of Florida |
Publication date: | 10/31/1998 |
Series: | Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series |
Pages: | 240 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d) |