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On the border : an environmental history of San Antonio
- Title
- On the border : an environmental history of San Antonio / Char Miller, editor.
- Publication
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2001.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Miller, Char, 1951-
- Description
- x, 291 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-281) and index.
- Contents
- Urban nature : an introduction / Char Miller -- San Antonio : an environmental crossroads on the Texas spring line / James F. Petersen -- "A fine country with broad plains--the most beautiful in New Spain" : colonial views of land and nature / Jésus F. de la Teja -- Where the buffalo roamed : ranching, agriculture, and the urban marketplace / Char Miller -- Parks, politics, and patronage / Char Miller and Heywood Sanders -- The landscape of death : homicide as a health problem / David R. Johnson, Derral Cheatwood, and Benjamin Bradshaw -- Battlefields : the military and the environment / Stephanie J. Shaw and Craig E. Colten -- Empty taps, missing pipes : water policy and politics / Heywood Sanders -- Establishing "sole source" protection : the Edwards aquifer and the Safe Drinking Water Act / Laura A. Wimberley -- Sitting down at the table : mediation and resolution of water conflicts / John M. Donahue and Jon Q. Sanders -- The preservation of San Antonio's built environment / Lewis F. Fisher -- Elusive balance : landscape, architecture, and the social matrix / John Hutton -- City limits : an afterword / Char Miller.
- Call Number
- JFE 02-14584
- ISBN
- 0822941635 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2001003337
- OCLC
- 47092399
- Title
- On the border : an environmental history of San Antonio / Char Miller, editor.
- Imprint
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2001.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-281) and index.
- Added Author
- Miller, Char, 1951-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 02-14584