Poquosin
Subtitle: a study of rural landscape & society
By: Jack Temple Kirby.
Series: Studies in rural culture
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.); Drainage -- Environmental aspects -- Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.); Reclamation of land -- Environmental aspects -- Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.); Wetland ecology -- Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.); Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.) -- History
Description: "In this unique work, Jack Temple Kirby charts the history of the low country between the James River in Virginia and Albemarle Sound in North Carolina. The Algonquian word for this country, which means "swamp-on-a-hill," was transliterated as "poquosin" by seventeenth-century English settlers. Interweaving social, political, economic, and military history with the story of the landscape, Kirby shows how Native American, African, and European peoples have adapted to and modified this tidewater area in the nearly four hundred years since the arrival of Europeans."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-284) and index.