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This book about Somerset County and the surrounding region traces the course of racism and society in a tidewater county in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay country from 1850 to the present. Tidewater Somerset provides us with a palette for understanding racism and the evolution of racial ideas often overlooked by scholars. The book examines specific influences and trends, as well as political and cultural developments, which have played out at the m...

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A hundred years ain't a very long time on the Eastern Shore, " local farmers and watermen used to say, and that is a telling refrain. Past and present mix easily on the Shore, and in this respect, as well as in certain local customs and habits of language, the region is very much still an old-fashioned English society. This same mix of history and social commentary is what makes this book about Maryland's Eastern Shore unique.Until fairly rece...

In an age of misinformation and public apprehension about climate change, droughts, floods, and polluted drinking water, Global Thirst offers a critical perspective on water, its uses, and access, as a major global issue in the 21st century. Environmental historian John R. Wennersten turns an unflinching eye on today's global water problems, critically analyzing pollution, drought, dying rivers, and the privatization of water utilities. He als...

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This new series highlights low-traffic scenic roads, both dirt and paved, suitable for riding on both mountain and road bikes.

John R. Wennersten is an environmental affairs writer and author of Global Thirst: Water and Society in the 21st Century. Denise Robbins is a writer and communications expert on climate change issues in Washington, DC. A graduate of Cornell University, she regularly publishes articles dealing with all aspects of global and national environmental change, with a focus on regional politics.

Global climate change is undeniable. Over the next few decades, as sea levels rise, storms intensify, and drought and desertification run rampant, hundreds of millions of civilians will abandon their homes, cities, and even entire countries. What will happen to these massive numbers of environmental refugees? Where will they go, what rights will they have, and who will take care of them?Over 200 million people in Asian countries live on land t...

Today more than ever, large numbers of Americans are leaving the United States. It is estimated that by the end of the decade, some 10 million of the brightest and most talented Americans, representing an estimated $136 billion in wages, will be living and working overseas. This emigration trend contradicts the internalized myth of America as the land of affluence, opportunity, and freedom. What is behind this trend? Wennersten argues that man...

Eastern Branch Press is pleased to announce the new paperback edition of John R. Wennersten's The Oyster Wars of Chesapeake Bay. In the decades following the Civil War, Chesapeake Bay became the scene of a life and death struggle to harvest the oyster, one of the most valuable commodi­ties on the Atlantic coast. In this book, noted historian and author John Wennersten tells the stories of wa­termen, law enforcement officers, government officia...

Located in Washington, D. C., the Anacostia River is a poster child for America's tragically neglected, abused urban waterways. There are compelling ethical grounds for remedying this river's environmental problems, for the Anacostia in our time demonstrates that environmental burdens like pollution and resource depletion are not shared equally. Wennersten's book offers a corrective to the uncritical assumptions of growth for its own sake, and...

A lively look at the Chesapeake Bay and what has happened to it over the last five centuries. Noted Maryland author and historian John R. Wennersten has gathered and distilled vast amounts of evidence from historical and scientific records to understand the reasons behind the declining health of Maryland's crown jewel. Wennersten's eye is clear, his prose direct, and his conclusions illuminating. This book for the general audience is the first...