Boyd Gibbons

Wye Island

Insiders, Outsiders, and Change in a Chesapeake Community - Special Reprint Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781933115405
• ISBN-10: 1933115408
• Artikelnr.: 22535852

Autorenporträt

Boyd Gibbons was president of the Johnson Foundation from 1997 to 2006. He was formerly the director of the California Department of Fish and Game, a senior journalist for National Geographic magazine, Secretary to the President's Council on Environmental Quality, and Deputy Under Secretary of the Interior in the Nixon Administration. The original edition of Wye Island won the American Library Association's Award as one of the 'Ten Most Notable Books in 1977.' Adam Rome is an associate professor of history at Pennsylvania State University, and author of The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword to the Special Reprint Edition, by Adam Rome
Foreword to the Original Edition, by Hans H. Landsberg
Preface to the Original Edition
1. The Rouse Vision
2. The Rouse Plan Evolves
3. The Natives
4. The Rich
5. The Shore Stiffens Against Growth
6. Outsiders and Insiders
7. The Auction
Afterword
About the Author