Biennial Report

Biennial Report
Author: Iowa. State Dept. of History and Archives
Publisher:
Total Pages: 158
Release: 1894
Genre: Archives
ISBN:

This Delta, this Land

This Delta, this Land
Author: Mikko Saikku
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2011-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0820340693

This environmental history of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta places the Delta's economic and cultural history in an environmental context. It reveals the human aspects of the region's natural history, including land reclamation, slave and sharecropper economies, ethnic and racial perceptions of land ownership and stewardship, and even blues music.

Americans and Their Forests

Americans and Their Forests
Author: Michael Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 630
Release: 1992-06-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521428378

Dr Williams begins by exploring the role of the forest in American culture: the symbols, themes, and concepts - for example, pioneer woodsman, lumberjack, wilderness - generated by contact with the vast land of trees. He considers the Indian use of the forest, describing the ways in which native tribes altered it, primarily through fire, to promote a subsistence economy.