Making Salmon

Joseph E. Taylor III is assistant professor of history at Iowa State University. An environmental historian specializing in fisheries, he has also worked in the commercial fisheries of the northeast Pacific and Bering Sea.Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Award, American Society for Environmental History

• Lists of MapsForeword: Speaking for SalmonAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Durable CrisisDependence, Respect, and ModerationHistoricizing OverfishingInventing a PanaceaMaking SalmonTaking SalmonUrban SalmonRemaking SalmonTaking ResponsibilityCitation AbbreviationsNotesBibliographic EssayIndex

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