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“james dilisio”

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  • Maryland Geography

    An Introduction

    by James DiLisio ...
    A grand tour of Maryland’s geographic past through the lens of today’s landscape.When he first laid eyes on the countryside around Chesapeake Bay in 1608, records reveal, Captain John Smith exclaimed, “Heaven and earth seemed never to have agreed better to frame a place for man’s habitation.” In Maryland Geography, James DiLisio—another admirer of the Free State—pays tribute to Maryland’s rich ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Maryland

    A Geography

    by James E. DiLisio ...
    Although one of the smallest of the fifty states, in many ways Maryland is the United States in miniature, bringing together and exemplifying the diverse elements of the country. In it the North and the South meet, and Maryland is one of the original gateways to the West. Maryland is a study in contrasts, combining the poverty of the Appalachian hill people, the sharecroppers of the South, and the ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

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    How Rivers Made America and America Remade Its Rivers

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    “An original and thought-provoking exploration of the sinuous course that water has carved through our economic and political landscape.” —Gerard Helferich, Wall Street JournalIn a powerful work of environmental history, Martin Doyle tells the epic story of America and its rivers, from the U.S. Constitution’s roots in interstate river navigation, to the failure of the levees in Hurricane Katrina ... Read more

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  • The Lobster Coast

    Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier

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    “A thorough and engaging history of Maine’s rocky coast and its tough-minded people.”—Boston Herald“[A] well-researched and well-written cultural and ecological history of stubborn perseverance.”—USA TodayFor more than four hundred years the people of coastal Maine have clung to their rocky, wind-swept lands, resisting outsiders’ attempts to control them while harvesting the astonishing bounty of ... Read more

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  • The Hudson

    America's River

    by Frances F. Dunwell ...
    "A commanding and inspiring biography of a river that gave rise to an art movement, progressive social quests, [and] landmark environmental cases." — Booklist (starred review)Includes maps, photos, and illustrationsFrances F. Dunwell presents a rich portrait of the Hudson and of the visionary people whose deep relationship with the river inspired changes in American history and culture. Lavishly ... Read more

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  • Gotham Unbound

    The Ecological History of Greater New York

    by Ted Steinberg ...
    **Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award for US HistoryA “fascinating, encyclopedic history…of greater New York City through an ecological lens” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)—the sweeping story of one of the most man-made spots on earth.**Gotham Unbound recounts the four-century history of how hundreds of square miles of open marshlands became home to six percent of the nation’s population. Ted ... Read more

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  • Charleston

    Race, Water, and the Coming Storm

    by Susan Crawford ...
    An unflinching look at a beautiful, endangered, tourist-pummeled, and history-filled American city.At least thirteen million Americans will have to move away from American coasts in the coming decades, as rising sea levels and increasingly severe storms put lives at risk and cause billions of dollars in damages. In Charleston, South Carolina, denial, boosterism, widespread development, and public ... Read more

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  • Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture

    Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast

    by Paul S Sutter, Paul M Pressly ...
    Series series Environmental History and the American South
    An essay collection exploring the history of 5,000-year relationship between human culture and nature on the Georgia coast.One of the unique features of the Georgia coast today is its thorough conservation. At first glance, it seems to be a place where nature reigns. But another distinctive feature of the coast is its deep and diverse human history. Indeed, few places that seem so natural hide so ... Read more

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  • Plantation Kingdom

    The American South and Its Global Commodities

    by Richard Follett, Sven Beckert, Peter Coclanis, Barbara M. Hahn ...
    Series series The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series
    How global competition brought the plantation kingdom to its knees.In 1850, America’s plantation economy reigned supreme. U.S. cotton dominated world markets, and American rice, sugarcane, and tobacco grew throughout a vast farming empire that stretched from Maryland to Texas. Four million enslaved African Americans toiled the fields, producing global commodities that enriched the most powerful ... Read more

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  • Empire of Water

    An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply

    by David Soll ...
    Supplying water to millions is not simply an engineering and logistical challenge. As David Soll shows in his finely observed history of the nation's largest municipal water system, the task of providing water to New Yorkers transformed the natural and built environment of the city, its suburbs, and distant rural watersheds. Almost as soon as New York City completed its first municipal water ... Read more

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  • Mastering Iron

    The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry, 1800-1868

    by Anne Kelly Knowles ...
    Veins of iron run deep in the history of America. Iron making began almost as soon as European settlement, with the establishment of the first ironworks in colonial Massachusetts. Yet it was Great Britain that became the Atlantic world’s dominant low-cost, high-volume producer of iron, a position it retained throughout the nineteenth century. It was not until after the Civil War that American iron ... Read more

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  • Mirage

    Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.

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    “Never before has the case been more compellingly made that America’s dependence on a free and abundant water supply has become an illusion. Cynthia Barnett does it by telling us the stories of the amazing personalities behind our water wars, the stunning contradictions that allow the wettest state to have the most watered lawns, and the thorough research that makes her conclusions inescapable. ... Read more

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