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On the border : an environmental history of San Antonio / Char Miller, editor

Published
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2001]
Copyright Date
©2001
Physical Description
x, 291 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Additional Creators
Miller, Char, 1951-

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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.
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ISBN
0822941635 (cloth : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-281) and index.
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