A01=Matthew Booker
american west
Author_Matthew Booker
bayshore
california ecology
california environment
california history
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cities and environment
climate change
conservation and development
ecological historians
ecology and climate change
environment conservation
environmental history
environmental protection
environmentalism
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global warming
going green
history of san francisco
nature conservation
pacific coast
san francisco estuary
san francisco tidelands
urban development and environment
us history
westward expansion
Product details
- ISBN 9780520355569
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 09 Jun 2020
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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San Francisco Bay is the largest and most productive estuary on the Pacific Coast of North America. It is also home to the oldest and densest urban settlements in the American West. Focusing on human inhabitation of the Bay since Ohlone times, Down by the Bay reveals the ongoing role of nature in shaping that history. From birds to oyster pirates, from gold miners to farmers, from salt ponds to ports, this is the first history of the San Francisco Bay and Delta as both a human and natural landscape. It offers invaluable context for current discussions over the best management and use of the Bay in the face of sea level rise.
Matthew Morse Booker is Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University. He was previously Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford and leads the Between the Tides project at Stanford’s Spatial History Lab, mapping San Francisco Bay's dynamic tidal margin.
