The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay Since 1880 by Keiner, Christine
The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay Since 1880 by Keiner, Christine

The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay Since 1880

In The Oyster Question, Christine Keiner applies perspectives of environmental, agricultural, political, and social history to examine...
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The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay Since 1880 by Keiner, Christine

The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay Since 1880

$2,330.25
The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay Since 1880 by Keiner, Christine

The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay Since 1880

$2,330.25
Author: Christine Keiner
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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In The Oyster Question, Christine Keiner applies perspectives of environmental, agricultural, political, and social history to examine the decline of Maryland's iconic Chesapeake Bay oyster industry.

Oystermen have held on to traditional ways of life, and some continue to use preindustrial methods, tonging oysters by hand from small boats. Others use more intensive tools, and thus it is commonly believed that a lack of regulation enabled oystermen to exploit the bay to the point of ruin.

But Keiner offers an opposing view in which state officials, scientists, and oystermen created a regulated commons that sustained tidewater communities for decades. Not until the 1980s did a confluence of natural and unnatural disasters weaken the bay's resilience enough to endanger the oyster resource. Keiner examines conflicts that pitted scientists in favor of privatization against watermen who used their power in the statehouse to stave off the forces of rural change. Her study breaks new ground regarding the evolution of environmental politics at the state rather than the federal level.

The Oyster Question concludes with the impassioned ongoing debate over introducing nonnative oysters to the Chesapeake Bay and how that proposal might affect the struggling watermen and their identity as the last hunter-gatherers of the industrialized world.

Author: Christine Keiner
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 12/01/2009
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780820326986


Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 11/06/2009 pg. 21
Choice 06/01/2010

About the Author
CHRISTINE KEINER is a professor of science, technology, and society at Rochester Institute of Technology and the author of The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay since 1880 (Georgia).
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