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Record Nr.

UNINA9910960599003321

Titolo

Key to the northern country : the Hudson River Valley in the American Revolution / / edited by James M. Johnson, Christopher Pryslopski, and Andrew Villani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, Albany, : Excelsior Editions, 2013

ISBN

9781438448138

1438448139

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Collana

SUNY series, an American region : studies in the Hudson Valley

Altri autori (Persone)

JohnsonJames M. <1947 June 28->

PryslopskiChristopher <1974->

VillaniAndrew <1986->

Disciplina

974.7/03

Soggetti

HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)

New York (State) History Revolution, 1775-1783

Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) History 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Overview: the American Revolution in the Hudson River Valley / Thomas S. Wermuth and James M. Johnson -- Politics and loyalties -- A suspected loyalist in the rural Hudson River Valley: the Revolutionary War experience of Roeloff Josiah Eltinge / Kenneth Shefsiek -- "Can you on such principles think of quitting a country?" Family, faith, law, property, and the loyalists of the Hudson Valley during the American Revolution / Michael Diaz -- New York's committees in the American Revolution / Colin Williams -- Robert R. Livingston, Jr.: the reluctant revolutionary / Clare Brandt -- Skinners: patriot "friends" or loyalist "foes"? / Lincoln Diamant -- The central Hudson Valley and the American Revolution / Thomas S. Wermuth -- Suffrage and society -- Open to all parties: Alexander and James Robertson, Albany printers, 1771-1777 / Denis P. Brennan -- Taxation and suffrage in revolutionary New York / Jonathan Clark -- The right to choose: suffrage during the Revolutionary Era in Charlotte Precinct / William P. McDermott -- "The women! in this place have risen in a mob": Women



rioters and the American Revolution in the Hudson River Valley / Thomas S. Wermuth -- Officers and a lady: the Hudson Highlands and Georgia during the Revolution / Edward J. Cashin -- Fortresses, prisons, and huts -- Lewis Graham's house in Pine Plains: a Revolutionary log building / Neil Larson -- Revolutionary War fleet prison at Esopus / Frank Doherty -- The flawed works of Fort Constitution / James M. Johnson -- Battles and warfare -- A warm reception in the Hudson Highlands / James M. Johnson -- War in Schaghticoke: a footnote to the revolution in upstate New York / R. Beth Klopott -- Interpreting the battle for the Hudson River Valley: the Battle of Fort Montgomery -- James M. Johnson and Gregory Smith -- Revolutionary road: incident on Gallows Hill / Thomas C. O'Keefe -- Soldier of '76: the Revolutionary War service of a Connecticut private in the campaign for Yew york / William Sullivan -- Valcour Island: setting the conditions for victory at Saratoga / Gregory Tomlin.

Sommario/riassunto

Offers nearly forty years of interdisciplinary scholarship on the Hudson River Valley's role in the American Revolution.The Hudson River Valley, which George Washington referred to as the "Key to the Northern Country," played a central role in the American Revolution. From 1776 to 1780, with major battles fought at Saratoga, Fort Montgomery, and Stony Point, the region was a central battleground of the Revolution. In addition, it witnessed some of the most dramatic and memorable aspects of the war, such as Benedict Arnold's failed conspiracy at West Point, the burning of New York's capital at Kingston, and the more than six-hundred-mile march of Washington and the Continental Army and Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, and his French Expeditionary Corps to Yorktown, Virginia. Compiled from essays that appeared in the Hudson Valley Regional Review and the Hudson River Valley Review, published by the Hudson River Valley Institute, the book illustrates the richly textured history of this supremely important time and place.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964179903321

Titolo

Community forest monitoring for the carbon market : opportunities under REDD / / edited by Margaret Skutsch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Washington, D.C., : Earthscan, 2011

London ; ; Washington, D.C. : , : Earthscan, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-53802-X

1-283-54722-8

9786613859679

1-136-53803-8

1-84977-559-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SkutschMargaret McCall

Disciplina

333.75/16

Soggetti

Carbon sequestration

Forests and forestry - Environmental aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Community Forest Monitoring for the Carbon Market: Opportunities under REDD; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; List of Figures, Tables and Boxes; PART I PRINCIPLES AND ISSUES; 1 Why Community Forest Monitoring?; 2 How Much Carbon Does Community Forest Management Save?; 3 Local Participation in Mapping, Measuring and Monitoring for Community Carbon Forestry; 4 The Policy Context of Community Monitoring for REDD+; 5 Information Requirements for National REDD+ Programmes; 6 The Costs and Reliability of Forest Carbon Monitoring by Communities

7 A Field Guide for Community Forest Carbon Monitoring8 Participatory Mapping and Monitoring of Forest Carbon Services Using Freeware: CyberTracker and Google Earth; PART II CASE STUDIES; 9 The Cost to Communities of Participating in REDD+ in Nepal; 10 Community Carbon Forestry to Counter Forest Degradation in the Indian Himalayas; 11 The Potential of Community Forest Management under REDD+ for Achieving MDG Goals in Tanzania; 12 West Africa: Carbon Savings



Through Community Management of Dry Savanna Woodlands; 13 Can Carbon Compete with the Loggers in Papua New Guinea?

14 Will Poor Nepalese Communities be Able to Access REDD+ Carbon Credits? A Legal AnalysisIndex

Sommario/riassunto

Recent developments in international policy on Reduced Emissions from Deforestation  in Developing countries (REDD) open the way for crediting of carbon saved by rural communities through management of the forests in their vicinity. Since the annual changes in forest carbon stock under this kind of management are relatively small and often under the canopy, they cannot easily be assessed using remote sensing, so ground-level data collection is likely to be essential over large areas of forests.The potential role of communities in measuring, monitoring and reporting carbon stock changes in thei