Leslie Reeder-Myers, John A. Turck, and Torben C. Rick (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780813066134
- eISBN:
- 9780813058344
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813066134.001.0001
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
Using archaeology as a tool for understanding long-term ecological and climatic change, this volume synthesizes current knowledge about the ways Native Americans interacted with their environments ...
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Using archaeology as a tool for understanding long-term ecological and climatic change, this volume synthesizes current knowledge about the ways Native Americans interacted with their environments along the Atlantic coast over the past 10,000 years.
Leading scholars discuss how the region’s indigenous peoples grappled with significant changes to shorelines and estuaries, from sea level rise to shifting plant and animal distributions to European settlement and urbanization. Together, they provide a valuable perspective spanning millennia on the diverse marine and nearshore ecosystems of the entire eastern seaboard—the icy waters of Newfoundland and the Gulf of Maine, the Middle Atlantic regions of the New York Bight and the Chesapeake Bay, and the warm shallows of the St. Johns River and the Florida Keys. This broad comparative outlook brings together populations and areas previously studied in isolation.
Today, the Atlantic coast is home to tens of millions of people who inhabit ecosystems that are in dramatic decline. The research in this volume not only illuminates the past but also provides important tools for managing coastal environments into an uncertain future.Less
Using archaeology as a tool for understanding long-term ecological and climatic change, this volume synthesizes current knowledge about the ways Native Americans interacted with their environments along the Atlantic coast over the past 10,000 years.
Leading scholars discuss how the region’s indigenous peoples grappled with significant changes to shorelines and estuaries, from sea level rise to shifting plant and animal distributions to European settlement and urbanization. Together, they provide a valuable perspective spanning millennia on the diverse marine and nearshore ecosystems of the entire eastern seaboard—the icy waters of Newfoundland and the Gulf of Maine, the Middle Atlantic regions of the New York Bight and the Chesapeake Bay, and the warm shallows of the St. Johns River and the Florida Keys. This broad comparative outlook brings together populations and areas previously studied in isolation.
Today, the Atlantic coast is home to tens of millions of people who inhabit ecosystems that are in dramatic decline. The research in this volume not only illuminates the past but also provides important tools for managing coastal environments into an uncertain future.
Andrew W. Kahrl
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781469628721
- eISBN:
- 9781469628745
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469628721.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
The chapter follows the demise of Jim Crow and rise of the modern Sunbelt and examines its impact on African American coastal landowners and coastal ecologies. It does so by telling the histories of ...
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The chapter follows the demise of Jim Crow and rise of the modern Sunbelt and examines its impact on African American coastal landowners and coastal ecologies. It does so by telling the histories of the sites profiled in the preceding chapters from the 1960s to the present. It shows how black beaches faced a similar set of challenges in the post-segregated Sunbelt South, including smaller crowds and declining revenue, hostile and indifferent public officials, and predatory land speculators. It catalogs the instruments of displacement and dispossession used by speculators and developers to acquire black-owned land, and tells the stories of African Americans who lost their property due to fraud, deception, and other highly unethical but often legal practices. Particular emphasis is paid to the impact of environmental disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and reckless over-development of coastal areas on historically black communities, as well as changes in the political economy of the South that fueled the growth of corporate-owned resorts, hotels, and gated communities.Less
The chapter follows the demise of Jim Crow and rise of the modern Sunbelt and examines its impact on African American coastal landowners and coastal ecologies. It does so by telling the histories of the sites profiled in the preceding chapters from the 1960s to the present. It shows how black beaches faced a similar set of challenges in the post-segregated Sunbelt South, including smaller crowds and declining revenue, hostile and indifferent public officials, and predatory land speculators. It catalogs the instruments of displacement and dispossession used by speculators and developers to acquire black-owned land, and tells the stories of African Americans who lost their property due to fraud, deception, and other highly unethical but often legal practices. Particular emphasis is paid to the impact of environmental disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and reckless over-development of coastal areas on historically black communities, as well as changes in the political economy of the South that fueled the growth of corporate-owned resorts, hotels, and gated communities.
