Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History, 1783-1933 - Paperback

by Margaret Beattie Bogue (Author), Nora Dudwick (Contribution by)

Focusing on former socialist states in Eastern Europe, the contributors disclose the political and physical dangers inherent in field research. They reveal how communities undergo political and economic dislocations, plummeting living standards, and ethnic and nationalist violence.

Author Biography

Margaret Beattie Bogue is professor emerita of history and liberal studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Around the Shores of Lake Michigan: A Guide to Historic Sites, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press, and of many other books and articles on fisheries, wetlands, and agriculture in the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada.