Poquosin
Subtitle: A Study of Rural Landscape and Society (Studies in Rural Culture)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: August 14, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780807845271
Subjects: American history; Local history; Social history; Real Estate - General; Environmental aspects; Sociology; History: American; USA; Reclamation of land; Sociology - General; Social Science / Human Geography; rural studies; South; environmental studies; Native American; James River; Virginia; Albemarle Sound; North Carolina; Algonquian; African;  Tidewater; settlement; slavery; Nat Turner's rebellion; Civil War; agricultural modernization; urbanization.; Effect of human beings on; Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.); Drainage; Nature
First sentence: The cosmopolitan elites of the James-Albermarle subregion-whether merchants or planters-were in a real sense all mariners.