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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Nature & history in the Potomac country
    sub title: from hunter-gatherers to the age of Jefferson
  name:
    name part: Rice, James D.
    name part: 1963-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: dictionary
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 338 pages :) : illustrations, maps
  abstract: "James D. Rice's study of the Potomac River basin begins with a mystery. Why, when the whole of the region offered fertile soil and excellent fishing and hunting, was nearly three-quarters of the land uninhabited on the eve of colonization? Rice wonders how the existence of this no man's land influenced nearby Native American and, later, colonial settlements. Did it function as a commons, as a place where all were free to hunt and fish? Or was it perceived as a strange and hostile wilderness?" "Rice discovers environmental factors at the center of the story. Making use of extensive archaeological and anthropological research, as well as the vast scholarship on farming practices in the colonial period, he traces the region's history from its earliest known habitation. Rice makes clear the implications of unbridled economic development for the forests, streams, and wetlands of the Potomac River basin. With what effects, Rice asks, did humankind exploit and then alter the landscape and the quality of the river's waters?" "Equal parts environmental, Native American, and colonial history, Nature and History in the Potomac Country is a useful and innovative study of the Potomac River, its valley, and its people."--Jacket.
  note: James D. Rice.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-330) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-dc
    geographic code: n-us-md
    geographic code: n-us-va
  subject:
    geographic: Potomac River Valley
    topic: Colonization
  subject:
    geographic: Potomac River Valley
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Potomac River
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Potomac River Valley
    topic: Environmental conditions
  subject:
    geographic: Potomac River
    topic: Environmental conditions
  subject:
    topic: Human ecology
    topic: History
    geographic: Potomac River Valley
  subject:
    topic: Landscape changes
    geographic: Potomac River Valley
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Nature
    topic: Effect of human beings on
    geographic: Potomac River Valley
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Indians of North America
    geographic: Potomac River Valley
    topic: History
  classification: GE155.P68 R53 2009
  classification: 975.2
  identifier: 9781421402628
  identifier: 1421402629
  identifier: 9780801890321 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0801890322 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2008011844
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: MdBmJHUP
    record creation date: 080314
    record change date: 20260608205238.8
    record identifier: in00003394119