The Somerset Place Restoration Excavations, 1994
Author | : Carl Steen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
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Author | : Carl Steen |
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Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
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Author | : Carl R. Steen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
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Author | : Jillian E. Galle |
Publisher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781572332775 |
The first multiauthor collection to focus on archaeology and the construction of gender in an African American context.
Author | : Roy T. Sawyer |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2010-05-05 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0813929695 |
The geologically ancient Tidewater region of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina rests precariously atop millions of years of erosion from the nearby Appalachian Mountains. An immense wetland at near sea level, it is host to every conceivable body of fresh water, ranging from brooding swamps and large hidden lakes to sluggish blackwater rivers and brackish sounds (one of which was so large an early explorer thought he had found the Pacific Ocean). In this engaging book, biologist and Tidewater native Roy T. Sawyer delivers an ecohistory of this unique waterland whose wind-driven tides cover a rich human and natural past. Jutting prominently into the Atlantic, this wetland is the final stop for the warmth of the Gulf Stream before it is deflected from the American mainland. At the top of a narrow, warm coastal strip, it provides an ideal home for a vast array of animal and plant life, including prodigious numbers of reptiles (such as the world’s northernmost population of alligators) and overwintering waterfowl. It is also home to the oldest known living trees east of the Rocky Mountains. The climate and geography made the area a natural choice for very early human habitation--as far back as the last ice age, when the region was a rich oasis just south of a veritable tundra. In examining the impact of humans upon this environment, and vice-versa, Sawyer reveals how our alarming shortsightedness has produced a fragile and endangered present. Although human manipulation started here as early as ten thousand years ago (coinciding with extinction of mammoths and other megafauna), the environment has been altered most radically over only the last one hundred years, particularly in regard to land drainage, deforestation, overfishing, and pollution. The author provides an authoritative overview of the human impact on these wetlands and suggests ways in which we might still salvage them. In so doing, he explores the effects of hurricanes, droughts, forest fires, and ice ages of the past--and anticipates, in this age of global warming, natural events that may be still to come.
Author | : Karen L. Cox |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813063647 |
Once upon a time, it was impossible to drive through the South without coming across signs to “See Rock City” or similar tourist attractions. From battlegrounds to birthplaces, and sites in between, heritage tourism has always been part of how the South attracts visitors—and defines itself—yet such sites are often understudied in the scholarly literature. As the contributors to this volume make clear, the narrative of southern history told at these sites is often complicated by race, influenced by local politics, and shaped by competing memories. Included are essays on the meanings of New Orleans cemeteries; Stone Mountain, Georgia; historic Charleston, South Carolina; Yorktown National Battlefield; Selma, Alabama, as locus of the civil rights movement; and the homes of Mark Twain, Margaret Mitchell, and other notables. Destination Dixie reveals that heritage tourism in the South is about more than just marketing destinations and filling hotel rooms; it cuts to the heart of how southerners seek to shape their identity and image for a broader touring public—now often made up of northerners and southerners alike.
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Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
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Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : State government publications |
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Author | : William S. Tarlton |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Historic buildings |
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Author | : North Carolina. State Department of Archives and History |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : North Carolina |
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Author | : Moira G. Simpson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1135632715 |
Drawing upon material from Britain, Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, Making Representations explores the ways in which museums and anthropologists are responding to pressures in the field by developing new policies and practices, and forging new relationships with communities. Simpson examines the increasing number of museums and cultural centres being established by indigenous and immigrant communities as they take control of the interpretive process and challenge the traditional role of the museum. Museum studies students and museum professionals will all find this a stimulating and valuable read.