Between land and sea : the Atlantic Coast and the transformation of New England /

[Description]Christopher Pastore traces how Narragansett Bay's ecology shaped the contours of European habitation, trade, and resource use, and how littoral settlers in turn, over two centuries, transformed a marshy fractal of water and earth into a clearly defined coastline, which proved less...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pastore, Christopher L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Temas:
Coast changes > New England > History.
Littoral > Modifications > Nouvelle-Angleterre > Histoire.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geology.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Coast changes
Atlantic Coast (New England) > History.
Atlantique, Côte de l' (Nouvelle-Angleterre) > Histoire.
New England
New England > Atlantic Coast
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue : from sweetwater to seawater
  • Clams, dams, and the desiccation of New England
  • Shoveling dung against the tide
  • The geographic quicksilver of Narragansett Bay
  • Natural knowledge and a bay in transition
  • Improving coastal space during a century of war
  • Carving the industrial coastline
  • Epilogue : between progress and the pull of the sea.

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