Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History, 1783-1933

by Margaret Beattie Bogue

Book Overview

Focusing on former socialist states in Eastern Europe, the contributors disclose the political and physical dangers inherent in field research. They reveal how communities undergo political and economic dislocations, plummeting living standards, and ethnic and nationalist violence.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029916764X
• ISBN13: 9780299167646
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Fishing the Great Lakes

This is a thorough and very well researched and documented environmental history of the fishing business (commercial and recreational)in the Great Lakes. The author does an excellent job of explaining in exacting detail the impact of human exploitation - specifically fishing - on the Great Lakes area. As a trained historian I can vouch for the immense amount of research that went into writing this excellent book. My only critique is that at times the writing can be somewhat dry and redundant. Overall it is an outstanding environmental history book.