Waterfowling On The Chesapeake 1819 1936

Author : C. John Sullivan
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801871559
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waterfowling on the Chesapeake, 1819-1936 written by C. John Sullivan and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-05-02 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part documentary, part nostalgic history, and part informational catalogue, Waterfowling on the Chesapeake, 1819–1936 explores a century of hunting on the Chesapeake Bay and its major tributaries—from the heyday of gun clubs and market shooting to the rise of conservation law. Drawing on oral histories and period documents and artifacts, C. John Sullivan, a longtime collector of decoys and hunting paraphernalia and a frequent guest curator of exhibits, looks at the effects of technological change, the relationship between hunter and dog, the recognition of decoys as folk art, and the history of hunting. He also introduces us to famous and lesser-known carvers and others who share an enthusiasm for this feature of Chesapeake cultural history and life.

Author : C. John Sullivan Jr.
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625843879
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chesapeake Bay Retrievers, Decoys & Long Guns written by C. John Sullivan Jr. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carroll's Island is one of many places along the Chesapeake Bay where vibrant stories of dogs, decoys, guns and waterfowl resonate up from the shoreline. The stories from Carroll's Island Ducking Club, which was founded in the mid-nineteenth century, offer special insights about the Chesapeake Bay's waterfowling heritage. In this warm, informative book, C. John Sullivan Jr., one of the nation's

Author : Victor S. Kennedy
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421426552
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shifting Baselines in the Chesapeake Bay written by Victor S. Kennedy and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This environmental history of America’s largest estuary provides insight into how and why its former productivity and abundant fisheries have declined. The concept of “shifting baselines”—changes in historical reference points used in environmental assessments—illuminates a foundational challenge when evaluating the health of ecosystems and seeking to restore degraded wildlife populations. In this important book, Victor S. Kennedy examines the problem of shifting baselines for one of the most productive aquatic resources in the world: the Chesapeake Bay. Kennedy explains that since the 1800s, when the Bay area was celebrated for its aquatic bounty, harvest baselines have shifted downward precipitously. Over the centuries, fishers and hunters, supported by an extensive infrastructure of boats, gear, and processing facilities, overexploited the region’s fish, crustaceans, terrapin, and waterfowl, squandering a profound resource. Beginning with the colonial period and continuing through the twentieth century, Kennedy gathers an unparalleled collection of scientific resources and eyewitness reports by colonists, fishers, managers, scientists, and newspaper reporters to create a comprehensive examination of the Chesapeake’s environmental history. Focusing on the relative productivity and health of its fisheries and wildlife and highlighting key species such as shad, oysters, and blue crab, Shifting Baselines in the Chesapeake Bay helps readers understand the remarkable extent of the Bay’s natural resources in the past so that we can begin to understand what has changed since, and why. Such knowledge can help illustrate the Bay’s potential fertility and stimulate efforts to restore this pivotal maritime system’s ecological health and productivity.

Author : Benjamin E. Cuker
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030454819
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diet for a Sustainable Ecosystem written by Benjamin E. Cuker and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a specific ecosystem in depth, in order to weave a story built on place and history. It incorporates the theme of a journey to help reveal the environment-human-health-food system-problem. While drawing on a historical approach stretching back to the American colonial era, it also incorporates more contemporary scientific findings. By crafting its story around a specific place, the book makes it easier for readers to relate to the content, and to subsequently use what they learn to better understand the role of food systems at the global scale.

Author : C. John Sullivan Jr
Publisher : History Press Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781540218698
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chesapeake Bay Retrievers, Decoys & Long Guns: Tales of Carroll's Island Ducking Club written by C. John Sullivan Jr and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carroll s Island is one of many places along the Chesapeake Bay where vibrant stories of dogs, decoys, guns and waterfowl resonate up from the shoreline. The stories from Carroll s Island Ducking Club, which was founded in the mid-nineteenth century, offer special insights about the Chesapeake Bay s waterfowling heritage. In this warm, informative book, C. John Sullivan Jr., one of the nation s leading decoy collectors and scholars, documents the development of the Chesapeake Bay retriever and how gunners once devised decoys and new firearms and enjoyed the bounty of the Chesapeake Bay. Eventually Carroll s Island Ducking Club would disappear, but its legacy can still be seen today in the role members played in establishing the Chesapeake Bay retriever as Maryland s state dog."

Author : Daniel Vivian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110841690X
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Plantation World written by Daniel Vivian and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the creation of 'sporting plantations' in the South Carolina lowcountry during the first four decades of the twentieth century.

Author : Christine Keiner
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820337188
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oyster Question written by Christine Keiner and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Oyster Question, Christine Keiner applies perspectives of environmental, agricultural, political, and social history to examine the decline of Maryland’s iconic Chesapeake Bay oyster industry. Oystermen have held on to traditional ways of life, and some continue to use preindustrial methods, tonging oysters by hand from small boats. Others use more intensive tools, and thus it is commonly believed that a lack of regulation enabled oystermen to exploit the bay to the point of ruin. But Keiner offers an opposing view in which state officials, scientists, and oystermen created a regulated commons that sustained tidewater communities for decades. Not until the 1980s did a confluence of natural and unnatural disasters weaken the bay’s resilience enough to endanger the oyster resource. Keiner examines conflicts that pitted scientists in favor of privatization against watermen who used their power in the statehouse to stave off the forces of rural change. Her study breaks new ground regarding the evolution of environmental politics at the state rather than the federal level. The Oyster Question concludes with the impassioned ongoing debate over introducing nonnative oysters to the Chesapeake Bay and how that proposal might affect the struggling watermen and their identity as the last hunter-gatherers of the industrialized world.

Author : Kristin G. Congdon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313349371
Total Pages : 789 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Folk Art [2 volumes] written by Kristin G. Congdon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folk art is as varied as it is indicative of person and place, informed by innovation and grounded in cultural context. The variety and versatility of 300 American folk artists is captured in this collection of informative and thoroughly engaging essays. American Folk Art: A Regional Reference offers a collection of fascinating essays on the life and work of 300 individual artists. Some of the men and women profiled in these two volumes are well known, while others are important practitioners who have yet to receive the notice they merit. Because many of the artists in both categories have a clear identity with their land and culture, the work is organized by geographical region and includes an essay on each region to help make connections visible. There is also an introductory essay on U.S. folk art as a whole. Those writing about folk art to date tend to view each artist as either traditional or innovative. One of the major contributions of this work is that it demonstrates that folk artists more often exhibit both traits; they are grounded in their cultural context and creative in the way they make work their own. Such insights expand the study of folk art even as they readjust readers' understanding of who folk artists are.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural History written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Erve Chambers
Publisher : Maryland Sea Grant College University of Maryland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heritage Matters written by Erve Chambers and published by Maryland Sea Grant College University of Maryland. This book was released on 2006 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: