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BL
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635974
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| Title & Author
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Paradise lost? : : the environmental history of Florida /\ edited by Jack E. Davis and Raymond Arsenault
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| Publication Statement
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Gainesville :: University Press of Florida,, c2005
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| Series Statement
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The Florida history and culture series
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| Page. NO
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xiv, 420 p. ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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0813028264 (acid-free paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Between topos and the terrain : a brief survey of Florida environmental writing, 1513-1821 / Thomas Hallock -- An eighteenth-century flower child : William Bartram / Charlotte M. Porter -- A naturalist's place : Archie Carr and the nature of Florida / Frederick R. Davis -- "Improving" paradise : the Civilian Conservation Corps and environmental change in Florida / Dave Nelson -- Water, water everywhere / Christopher F. Meindl -- The Everglades and the Florida dream / David McCally -- The trials and tribulations of Amos Quito : the creation of the Florida Anti-Mosquito Association / Gordon Patterson -- "Nature's navels" : an overview of the many environmental histories of Florida citrus / Christian Warren -- The public storm : hurricanes and the state in twentieth-century America / Raymond Arsenault -- Alligators and plume birds : the despoliation of Florida's living aesthetic / Jack E. Davis -- Blasting through paradise : the construction and consequences of the Tamiami Trail / Gary Garrett -- Lake Apopka : from natural wonder to unnatural disaster / Nano Riley -- "Conservation is now a dead word" : Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the transformation of American environmentalism / Jack E. Davis -- A "monstrous desecration" : dredge and fill in Boca Ciega Bay / Bruce Stephenson -- "We must free ourselves...from the tattered fetters of the booster mentality" : Big Cypress Swamp and the politics of environmental protection in 1970s Florida / Gordon E. Harvey -- "The big ditch" : the rise and fall of the cross-Florida barge canal / Lee Irby
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| Subject
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Environmental policy-- Florida-- History
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Environmental degradation-- Florida-- History
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Landscape changes-- Florida-- History
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Wetland conservation-- Florida-- History
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Florida, Environmental conditions
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| Dewey Classification
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333.72/09759
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| LC Classification
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GE155.F6P37 2005
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GE155.F6P37 2005
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| Added Entry
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Davis, Jack E.,1956-
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Arsenault, Raymond
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