Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

On the Border: An Environmental History of San Antonio

3.7/5 ( ratings)

This collection of eleven essays, edited by Char Miller, examines the environmental history of San Antonio, drawing upon an interdisciplinary array of authors and insights to highlight the evolving relationship between the city's residents and the South Texas landscape, showing the citizens and the environment have shaped each other.

The essays trace the city’s environmental history over the last 300 years, from the Spanish explorers to the present. Many of the essays discuss issues that challenge San Antonio today--urban sprawl, water rights, and unchecked economic development--and show the events that led to their complexity.

The border of the title refers to San Antonio’s location at the edge of the Great Plains on the north and the coastal plain on the South, at the intersection of the eastern half of the country with the western half. It also refers, as Andrew Hurley writes, to the city’s social landscape.

The book looks beyond the natural environment to assess the city’s social ecology, chronicling the history of the city’s parks, water and sewer systems, and other infrastructures and concluding that San Antonio’s power brokers "did not conceive of the community as a community."

Language: English

Pages: 304

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Trinity University Press

Release: March 25, 2005

ISBN: 1595340149

ISBN 13: 9781595340146

On the Border: An Environmental History of San Antonio

3.7/5 ( ratings)

This collection of eleven essays, edited by Char Miller, examines the environmental history of San Antonio, drawing upon an interdisciplinary array of authors and insights to highlight the evolving relationship between the city's residents and the South Texas landscape, showing the citizens and the environment have shaped each other.

The essays trace the city’s environmental history over the last 300 years, from the Spanish explorers to the present. Many of the essays discuss issues that challenge San Antonio today--urban sprawl, water rights, and unchecked economic development--and show the events that led to their complexity.

The border of the title refers to San Antonio’s location at the edge of the Great Plains on the north and the coastal plain on the South, at the intersection of the eastern half of the country with the western half. It also refers, as Andrew Hurley writes, to the city’s social landscape.

The book looks beyond the natural environment to assess the city’s social ecology, chronicling the history of the city’s parks, water and sewer systems, and other infrastructures and concluding that San Antonio’s power brokers "did not conceive of the community as a community."

Language: English

Pages: 304

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Trinity University Press

Release: March 25, 2005

ISBN: 1595340149

ISBN 13: 9781595340146

More books from Char Miller

Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Breaking New Ground

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Death Valley National Park: A History

3.2/5 ( ratings)

Public Lands, Public Debates: A Century of Controversy

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Water in the West: A High Country News Reader

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Forty Years a Forester

4.2/5 ( ratings)

America's Great National Forests, Wildernesses, and Grasslands

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Fifty Years of the Texas Observer

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Not So Golden State: California's Environmental Challenges

On the Edge: Water, Immigration, and Politics in the Southwest

4.3/5 ( ratings)

300 Years of San Antonio and Bexar County

Forest Conservation in the Anthropocene: Science, Policy, and Practice

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Powering a City: How Energy and Big Dreams Transformed San Antonio

The Nature of Hope: Grassroots Organizing, Environmental Justice, and Political Change

Forks in the Trail: A Conservationist's Trek to the Pinnacles of Natural Resource Leadership

Seeking the Greatest Good: The Conservation Legacy of Gifford Pinchot

Hetch Hetchy: A History in Documents

Gifford Pinchot: Selected Writings

Between Ruin and Restoration: An Environmental History of Israel

Taylored Citizenship: State Institutions and Subjectivity

Rate this book!

Write a review?