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Davis, Jack E., 1956- author.
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Human ecology -- Mexico, Gulf of.
Environmental degradation -- Mexico, Gulf of.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Mexico, Gulf of.
Mexico, Gulf of -- History.
Mexico, Gulf of -- Environmental conditions.
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The Gulf : the making of an American sea / Jack E. Davis.
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Davis, Jack E., 1956- author.
Subjects
Award winning title
Pulitzer Prize
Human ecology -- Mexico, Gulf of.
Environmental degradation -- Mexico, Gulf of.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Mexico, Gulf of.
Mexico, Gulf of -- History.
Mexico, Gulf of -- Environmental conditions.
ISBN:
9780871408662
087140866X
9781631494024
1631494023
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x, 592 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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First edition.
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Prologue : history, nature, and a forgotten sea -- Introduction : birth -- Part one. Estuaries, and the lie of the land and sea : aborigines and colonizing Europeans. Mounds -- El golfo de México -- Unnecessary death -- A most important river, and a "magnificent" bay -- Part two. Sea and sky : American debuts in the nineteenth century. Manifest destiny -- A fishy sea -- The wild fish that tamed the coast -- Birds of a feather, shot together -- Part three. Preludes to the future. From bayside to beachside -- Oil and the Texas toe dip -- Oil and the Louisiana plunge -- Islands, shifting sands of time -- Wind and water -- Part four. Saturation and loss : post-1945. The growth coast -- Florida worry, Texas slurry -- Rivers of stuff -- Runoff, and runaway -- Sand in the hourglass -- Losing the edge -- Epilogue : a success story amid so much else.
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