The Gulf - the making of an American Sea
by Davis, Jack E.
pub. by Liveright Pub. Corp, NY, 2017     isbn - 978-0871408662 (hardcover) - - 1-63149-402-4 (pbk) - - LCCN 2016-051692 - - - map as illustration p.12 - - Black and White photos - - Contents p.ix-x - - Chronology p.1-2 - - Prologue p.3 - 11 - - Introduction p 12 - 19 - - Acknowledgments p. 531 - 532 - - Notes p. 533 - 557 - - Selected sources p. 559 - 566 - Index p. 567 - 592 - - Total 592 pages.
This book is a Pulitzer Prize winner. It richly deserves the award.
It is divided in 4 major parts, each divided into other groupings
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Part 1. Estuaries, and the lie of the land and Sea - Aborigines and Colonizing Europeans
 :     1. Mounds
 :     2. El Golfo de Mexico
 :     3. Unnecessary Death
 :     4. A most important River and a Magnificent Bay
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Part 2. Sea and Sky - American debuts in the nineteenth century
 :     5. Manifest Desgtiny
 :     6. A Fishy Sea
 :     7. The Wild Fish that Tamed the coast - (the Tarpon)
 :     8. Birds of a Feather, Shot together - (for feathers and for meat)
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Part 3. Preludes to the Future
 :     9. From Bayside to Beachside
 :     10. Oil and the Texas toe dip
 :     11. Oil and the Louisanna Plunge
 :     12. Islands, shifting sands of time
 :     13. Wind and Water  :
Part 4. Saturation and Loss - Post 1945
 :     14. The Growth Coast
 :     15. Florida worry, Texas Slurry
 :     16. Rivers of Stuff
 :     17. Runoff and Runaway
 :     18. Sand in he Hourglass
 :     19. Losing the Edge
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Epilogue - A Success Story amid so much else

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This is a good read. It does a decent job on the history of the parts of the Gulf of Mexico coast which are part of USA. It includes developments up to date of publication, given publication, probably up through 2015 or 2016. The author lives in Florida, and Florida is well covered, but the rest of the coast is also well covered.
The last parts cover how mistakes are made and various types of pollution are affecting the Gulf of Mexico.
~ 2022-04-28 ~

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