The once and future Great Lakes country : an ecological history

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ISBN: 9780773543881 (paper)
ISBN: 0773543880 (paper)
Physical Description: print
xxiv, 488 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm
Edition: First paperback edition.
Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014]
Copyright: �2013

General Note:	"North America's Great Lakes country has experienced centuries of upheaval, its landscapes utterly changed from what they were five hundred years ago. The region's abundant fish and wildlife and its magnificent forests and prairies astonished European newcomers who called it an earthly paradise but then ushered in an era of disease, warfare, resource depletion, and land development that transformed it forever." -- P. 4 of cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-460) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction : the fifth line : a farm just like thousands of others -- Part one. The land and what happened to it. The land beyond memory : before 1500 -- Stone age meets iron--and smallpox : the 1500s and 1600s -- Wilding the land with war : the 1700s -- Manufacturing the land : the 1800s -- Part two. Voices of nature past. Taking the wildlife : 1500-1900 -- Clearing the wood : 1500-1900 -- Taming the unforested : prairies, alvars, barrens, cliffs, bogs, and fens -- The true north : three centuries on -- Part three. Nature's prospect. Invasives : the unintended consequences of the uninvited -- Growing cities, changing climates : the next conversion -- Restoration : a new native landscape -- Afterword : nature never repeats itself.