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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Maryland, its resources, industries and institutions; prepared for the Board ... by members of Johns Hopkins university and others
Author: Maryland, Its Resources, Industries and Institutions
Author: Maryland. Board of World's Fair ManagersPublisher:
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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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The Oyster Question
Author: Christine KeinerPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820337188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
In The Oyster Question, Christine Keiner applies perspectives of environmental, agricultural, political, and social history to examine the decline of Maryland’s iconic Chesapeake Bay oyster industry. Oystermen have held on to traditional ways of life, and some continue to use preindustrial methods, tonging oysters by hand from small boats. Others use more intensive tools, and thus it is commonly believed that a lack of regulation enabled oystermen to exploit the bay to the point of ruin. But Keiner offers an opposing view in which state officials, scientists, and oystermen created a regulated commons that sustained tidewater communities for decades. Not until the 1980s did a confluence of natural and unnatural disasters weaken the bay’s resilience enough to endanger the oyster resource. Keiner examines conflicts that pitted scientists in favor of privatization against watermen who used their power in the statehouse to stave off the forces of rural change. Her study breaks new ground regarding the evolution of environmental politics at the state rather than the federal level. The Oyster Question concludes with the impassioned ongoing debate over introducing nonnative oysters to the Chesapeake Bay and how that proposal might affect the struggling watermen and their identity as the last hunter-gatherers of the industrialized world.
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Author: The Free Negro in Maryland, 1634-1860
Author: James Martin WrightPublisher:
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Category : Freedmen
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Leading Events of Maryland History
Author: John Montgomery GambrillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The Free Negro in Maryland, 1634-1860
Author: James M. WrightPublisher: New York : Columbia University
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Free Negro in Maryland, 1634-1860
Author: James Martin WrightPublisher: Octagon Press, Limited
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law
Author: The Michael Jenkins Collection of Works on the History of Maryland
Author: Catholic University of America. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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