Early European descriptions of North America tell about a landscape
and a variety of cultures in northeast Florida -- a region that had
been occupied by native people for more than 10,000 years -- that
were unlike anything the explorers and settlers had ever
encountered. This story of the land and people in that region of
the St. Johns River and the Atlantic coast covers 18,000 years --
from the Ice Age to the first half of the twentieth century.
James Miller describes how natural features and cultural
traditions were transformed and influenced by each other. Native
Americans as well as Spanish, English, and American colonists
developed unique cultural responses to opportunities and
constraints of a changing environment. With an unusually broad
scope in time, space, and subject matter, he uses the example of
northeast Florida to explore the notion of environmental
equilibrium, to illustrate the fallacy of a pristine environment,
and to show how essential environmental history is to modern
ecological planning.
Fully illustrated with 25 photographs and 40 maps and written in
an accessible style that synthesizes material usually accessible
only to specialists, the book will appeal to general readers and
policy planners as well as specialists. No comparable environmental
history of any Florida region exists.
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