Oranges and inlets

Date Issued:: 2012
Summary:: Nineteenth century settlers in Florida's Indian River Lagoon (IRL) region created an isolated fringe culture wholly dependent on the instable hydrological forces of the shallow lagoon system. These settlers were among the first to construct a built environment market by the dredging and filling that would define much of the twentieth century Sunshine State. There has been no period when the liminal IRL ecosystem was not without shifting barrier islands and dramatically varying salinity levels due primarily to the oceanic interchange following the opening and closing of natural inlets. This paper suggests that attempts to "restore" the lagoon will necessarily declare an arbitrary historical form to be normative for the system. The first and last chapters provide an overview of the system's origins and recent history, while the core of the paper focuses on human-environment interaction of the lagoon in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Title:	Oranges and inlets: an environmental history of Florida's Indian River Lagoon.	91 views 71 downloads
Name(s):	Osborn, Nathaniel Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Department of History
Type of Resource:	text
Genre:	Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance:	monographic
Date Issued:	2012
Publisher:	Florida Atlantic University
Physical Form:	electronic
Extent:	x, 234 p. : ill. (some col.)
Language(s):	English
Summary:	Nineteenth century settlers in Florida's Indian River Lagoon (IRL) region created an isolated fringe culture wholly dependent on the instable hydrological forces of the shallow lagoon system. These settlers were among the first to construct a built environment market by the dredging and filling that would define much of the twentieth century Sunshine State. There has been no period when the liminal IRL ecosystem was not without shifting barrier islands and dramatically varying salinity levels due primarily to the oceanic interchange following the opening and closing of natural inlets. This paper suggests that attempts to "restore" the lagoon will necessarily declare an arbitrary historical form to be normative for the system. The first and last chapters provide an overview of the system's origins and recent history, while the core of the paper focuses on human-environment interaction of the lagoon in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Identifier:	820724063 (oclc), 3355868 (digitool), FADT3355868 (IID), fau:3957 (fedora)
Note(s):	by Nathaniel Osborn. Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2012. Includes bibliography. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Adobe Reader.
Subject(s):	Florida -- Indian River (Lagoon) -- History Florida -- Indian River (Lagoon) -- Environmental aspects Indian River (Fla. : Lagoon) -- History Indian River (Fla. : Lagoon) -- Environmental aspects
Held by:	FBoU FAUER
Persistent Link to This Record:	http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3355868
Use and Reproduction:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Host Institution:	FAU

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