Coastal Histories
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Coastal Histories
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Author : Yogesh Sharma
language : en
Publisher: Primus Books
Release Date : 2010
Coastal Histories written by Yogesh Sharma and has been published by Primus Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
The subject of maritime and oceanic history comprises a large corpus and includes related thematic engagements such as the history of overseas exploration and expansion, navalmilitary history, shipping, port cities, the role of migrations and cross-cultural processes. This extensive field of enquiry also focuses upon the study of littoral societies or the coastal regions, in understanding the influence of the ocean upon these lands. The interface between the land and the sea, with its several ecological and topographical variations, has played an important role in determining human activity, the settlement patterns and material culture in the coastal regions, which taken together constitute huge masses of territories in all continents. The general pattern of existence and the rhythm of life in all these dissociated regions, however, had considerable commonality, due to the overwhelming impact of the two dominant elements-water and land-in shaping the destinies of its inhabitants. Coastal societies have their own particular notion of identity and ambience, which differentiates them from the extensive continental zones. It is in this context, that coastal territories and their histories constitute an interesting theme of enquiry. The present volume examines a number of themes pertaining to different coastal regions of India: coastal ecology, commercial crops, transmission of diseases, fortifications, port hierarchy, new port towns, vessels and boats, fishing communities, social life of women, etc. It should be of interest to students and scholars of maritime history of India.
The New Coastal History
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Author : David Worthington
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-10-17
The New Coastal History written by David Worthington and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-17 with History categories.
This book provides a pathway for the New Coastal History. Our littorals are all too often the setting for climate change and the political, refugee and migration crises that blight our age. Yet historians have continued, in large part, to ignore the space between the sea and the land. Through a range of conceptual and thematic chapters, this book remedies that. Scotland, a country where one is never more than fifty miles from saltwater, provides a platform as regards the majority of chapters, in accounting for and supporting the clusters of scholarship that have begun to gather around the coast. The book presents a new approach that is distinct from both terrestrial and maritime history, and which helps bring environmental history to the shore. Its cross-disciplinary perspectives will be of appeal to scholars and students in those fields, as well as in the environmental humanities, coastal archaeology, human geography and anthropology.
The Bayfront Book
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Author : Steve M. Wyatt
language : en
Publisher: Lincoln County Historical Society
Release Date : 1993
The Bayfront Book written by Steve M. Wyatt and has been published by Lincoln County Historical Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Lincoln County (Or.) categories.
Coastal Nature Coastal Culture
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Author : Paul S. Sutter
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2018-07-15
Coastal Nature Coastal Culture written by Paul S. Sutter and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-15 with Nature categories.
An essay collection exploring the history of 5,000-year relationship between human culture and nature on the Georgia coast. One of the unique features of the Georgia coast today is its thorough conservation. At first glance, it seems to be a place where nature reigns. But another distinctive feature of the coast is its deep and diverse human history. Indeed, few places that seem so natural hide so much human history. In Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture, editors Paul S. Sutter and Paul M. Pressly have brought together work from leading historians as well as environmental writers and activists that explores how nature and culture have coexisted and interacted across five millennia of human history along the Georgia coast, as well as how those interactions have shaped the coast as we know it today. The essays in this volume examine how successive communities of Native Americans, Spanish missionaries, British imperialists and settlers, planters, enslaved Africans, lumbermen, pulp and paper industrialists, vacationing northerners, Gullah-Geechee, nature writers, environmental activists, and many others developed distinctive relationships with the environment and produced well-defined coastal landscapes. Together these histories suggest that contemporary efforts to preserve and protect the Georgia coast must be as respectful of the rich and multifaceted history of the coast as they are of natural landscapes, many of them restored, that now define so much of the region. Contributors: William Boyd, S. Max Edelson, Edda L. Fields-Black, Christopher J. Manganiello, Tiya Miles, Janisse Ray, Mart A. Stewart, Drew A. Swanson, David Hurst Thomas, and Albert G. Way.
The Human Shore
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Author : John R. Gillis
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2012-10-17
The Human Shore written by John R. Gillis and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-17 with History categories.
Since before recorded history, people have congregated near water. But as growing populations around the globe continue to flow toward the coasts on an unprecedented scale and climate change raises water levels, our relationship to the sea has begun to take on new and potentially catastrophic dimensions. The latest generation of coastal dwellers lives largely in ignorance of the history of those who came before them, the natural environment, and the need to live sustainably on the world’s shores. Humanity has forgotten how to live with the oceans. In The Human Shore, a magisterial account of 100,000 years of seaside civilization, John R. Gillis recovers the coastal experience from its origins among the people who dwelled along the African shore to the bustle and glitz of today’s megacities and beach resorts. He takes readers from discussion of the possible coastal location of the Garden of Eden to the ancient communities that have existed along beaches, bays, and bayous since the beginning of human society to the crucial role played by coasts during the age of discovery and empire. An account of the mass movement of whole populations to the coasts in the last half-century brings the story of coastal life into the present. Along the way, Gillis addresses humankind’s changing relationship to the sea from an environmental perspective, laying out the history of the making and remaking of coastal landscapes—the creation of ports, the draining of wetlands, the introduction and extinction of marine animals, and the invention of the beach—while giving us a global understanding of our relationship to the water. Learned and deeply personal, The Human Shore is more than a history: it is the story of a space that has been central to the attitudes, plans, and existence of those who live and dream at land’s end.
The New Coastal History
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Author : David Worthington
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
The New Coastal History written by David Worthington and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Coasts categories.
This book provides a pathway for the New Coastal History. Our littorals are all too often the setting for climate change and the political, refugee and migration crises that blight our age. Yet historians have continued, in large part, to ignore the space between the sea and the land. Through a range of conceptual and thematic chapters, this book remedies that. Scotland, a country where one is never more than fifty miles from saltwater, provides a platform as regards the majority of chapters, in accounting for and supporting the clusters of scholarship that have begun to gather around the coast. The book presents a new approach that is distinct from both terrestrial and maritime history, and which helps brings environmental history to the shore. Its cross-disciplinary perspectives will be of appeal to scholars and students in those fields, as well as in the environmental humanities, coastal archaeology, human geography and anthropology.
Researching Coastal And Resort Destination Management Cultures And Histories Of Tourism
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Author : Lluís Prats
language : en
Publisher: Palibrio
Release Date : 2011-07-21
Researching Coastal And Resort Destination Management Cultures And Histories Of Tourism written by Lluís Prats and has been published by Palibrio this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-21 with Travel categories.
Phd in Economics at the University of Toulouse I, France, and PhD in Business management at the University Jaume I of Castelló de la Plana, Spain. He likes to name himself as touristologist. He is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Tourism of the University of Girona and settled in Business Organization Management and Product Design Department. He is the co-director of Organisational Networks, Innovation and Tourism (ONIT) research group, deputy vice-rector for International Policy at the University of Girona, Executive Board member of the PRIME network of Universities, and member of the Tourism Research Institute INSETUR. He published several books and papers in prestigious tourism journals, and prestigious academic editorial brands having as main research topic Tourism Destination Management. This broad topic helped mainly to work under tourism innovation management, product development, and territorial management, among others. He manages and participates actively in national and international research projects under the same topics, and consequently generated the interest of other universities to have him teaching or doing research with. For instance he did long research periods abroad in Denmark, Netherlands, and UK, and teaching periods in Belgium, Austria, Estonia, Italy, and France, among others.
Coastal Stories
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Author : Robert Casseday
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-02
Coastal Stories written by Robert Casseday and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02 with categories.
This is a small collection of fictional short stories is based on the author's imagination and inspired by his town of Lewes, Delaware - a small coastal village on the Atlantic. From beginning to end, Casseday seeks to entertain his readers with his stories and his illustrations.
Coastal Metropolis
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Author : Carl A. Zimring
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2021-03-23
Coastal Metropolis written by Carl A. Zimring and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-23 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Built on an estuary, New York City is rich in population and economic activity but poor in available land to manage the needs of a modern city. Since consolidation of the five boroughs in 1898, New York has faced innumerable challenges, from complex water and waste management issues, to housing and feeding millions of residents in a concentrated area, to dealing with climate change in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, and everything in between. Any consideration of sustainable urbanism requires understanding how cities have developed the systems that support modern life and the challenges posed by such a concentrated population. As the largest city in the United States, New York City is an excellent site to investigate these concerns. Featuring an array of the most distinguished and innovative urban environmental historians in the field, Coastal Metropolis offers new insight into how the modern city transformed its air, land, and water as it grew.
Species Profiles
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Author : Peter J. Auster
language : en
Publisher: Washington, DC : Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the Interior
Release Date : 1989
Species Profiles written by Peter J. Auster and has been published by Washington, DC : Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the Interior this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Coastal ecology categories.