The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay Since 1880 (Environmental History and the American South)

by Christine Keiner (Author)

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  2010

  $37.10

  Christine Keiner applies perspectives of environmental, agricultural, political, and social history to examine the decline of Maryland's iconic Chesapeake Bay oyster industry. Keiner argues that state officials, scientists, and oystermen created a regulated commons that sustained tidewater communities for decades.