Author: John K. Cowen
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Category : Oyster culture
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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The Maryland Oyster and His Political Enemies
Author: John K. Cowen
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Category : Oyster culture
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Category : Oyster culture
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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The Oyster Question
Author: Christine Keiner
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820337188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
In The Oyster Question, Christine Keiner applies perspectives of environmental, agricultural, political, and social history to examine the decline of Maryland’s iconic Chesapeake Bay oyster industry. Oystermen have held on to traditional ways of life, and some continue to use preindustrial methods, tonging oysters by hand from small boats. Others use more intensive tools, and thus it is commonly believed that a lack of regulation enabled oystermen to exploit the bay to the point of ruin. But Keiner offers an opposing view in which state officials, scientists, and oystermen created a regulated commons that sustained tidewater communities for decades. Not until the 1980s did a confluence of natural and unnatural disasters weaken the bay’s resilience enough to endanger the oyster resource. Keiner examines conflicts that pitted scientists in favor of privatization against watermen who used their power in the statehouse to stave off the forces of rural change. Her study breaks new ground regarding the evolution of environmental politics at the state rather than the federal level. The Oyster Question concludes with the impassioned ongoing debate over introducing nonnative oysters to the Chesapeake Bay and how that proposal might affect the struggling watermen and their identity as the last hunter-gatherers of the industrialized world.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820337188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
In The Oyster Question, Christine Keiner applies perspectives of environmental, agricultural, political, and social history to examine the decline of Maryland’s iconic Chesapeake Bay oyster industry. Oystermen have held on to traditional ways of life, and some continue to use preindustrial methods, tonging oysters by hand from small boats. Others use more intensive tools, and thus it is commonly believed that a lack of regulation enabled oystermen to exploit the bay to the point of ruin. But Keiner offers an opposing view in which state officials, scientists, and oystermen created a regulated commons that sustained tidewater communities for decades. Not until the 1980s did a confluence of natural and unnatural disasters weaken the bay’s resilience enough to endanger the oyster resource. Keiner examines conflicts that pitted scientists in favor of privatization against watermen who used their power in the statehouse to stave off the forces of rural change. Her study breaks new ground regarding the evolution of environmental politics at the state rather than the federal level. The Oyster Question concludes with the impassioned ongoing debate over introducing nonnative oysters to the Chesapeake Bay and how that proposal might affect the struggling watermen and their identity as the last hunter-gatherers of the industrialized world.
Short Talks on Taxes
Author: Frederick J. Brown
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Category : Taxation
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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Category : Taxation
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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An Annotated Bibliography of Oysters
Author: J. L. Baughman
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Category : Bivalves
Languages : en
Pages : 812
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Category : Bivalves
Languages : en
Pages : 812
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Journal of Environmental Management
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Category : Environmental engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 868
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Category : Environmental engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 868
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Contribution
Author: University of Maryland, College Park. Natural Resources Institute
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Category : Marine biology
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Category : Marine biology
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Maryland Politics and Government
Author: Herbert Charles Smith
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803237901
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Tucked between the larger commonwealths of Pennsylvania and Virginia and overshadowed by the political maneuverings of its neighbor, Washington, D.C., Maryland has often been overlooked and neglected in studies of state governmental systems. With the publication of Maryland Politics and Government, the challenging demographic diversity, geographic variety, and dynamic Democratic pragmatism of Maryland finally get their due. Two longtime political analysts, Herbert C. Smith and John T. Willis, conduct a sustained inquiry into topics including the Maryland identity, political history, and interest groups; the three branches of state government; and policy areas such as taxation, spending, transportation, and the environment. Smith and Willis also establish a –Two Marylands” model that explains the dominance of the Maryland Democratic Party, established in the post_Civil War era, that persists to this day even in a time of political polarization. Unique in its scope, detail, and coverage, Maryland Politics and Government sets the standard for understanding the politics of the Free State (or, alternately, the Old Line State) for years to come.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803237901
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Tucked between the larger commonwealths of Pennsylvania and Virginia and overshadowed by the political maneuverings of its neighbor, Washington, D.C., Maryland has often been overlooked and neglected in studies of state governmental systems. With the publication of Maryland Politics and Government, the challenging demographic diversity, geographic variety, and dynamic Democratic pragmatism of Maryland finally get their due. Two longtime political analysts, Herbert C. Smith and John T. Willis, conduct a sustained inquiry into topics including the Maryland identity, political history, and interest groups; the three branches of state government; and policy areas such as taxation, spending, transportation, and the environment. Smith and Willis also establish a –Two Marylands” model that explains the dominance of the Maryland Democratic Party, established in the post_Civil War era, that persists to this day even in a time of political polarization. Unique in its scope, detail, and coverage, Maryland Politics and Government sets the standard for understanding the politics of the Free State (or, alternately, the Old Line State) for years to come.
The Oyster
Author: William Keith Brooks
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Category : Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Category : Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Good Government
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Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Contribution - Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
Author: Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
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Category : Marine biology
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Category : Marine biology
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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