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Remaking Boston : An Environmental History of the City and Its Surroundings /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wright, Conrad Edick, Penna, Anthony N.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Boston from peninsula to metropolis / Anthony N. Penna
  • The drowning of Boston Harbor and the development of the shoreline / Peter S. Rosen and Duncan M. FitzGerald
  • What lies beneath : science, nature, and the making of Boston Harbor / Michael Rawson
  • Remaking Boston Harbor : cleaning up after ourselves / Steven M. Rudnick
  • In search of the Shawmut Peninsula : using modern cartographic analysis to discover the "original" Boston shoreline / Stephen T. Mague
  • Remaking Boston, remaking Massachusetts / Brian Donahue
  • A city (only partly) on a hill : terrain and land use in pre-twentieth-century Boston / William B. Meyer
  • Reforestation in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, 1850-1910 / David Soll
  • How metropolitan parks shaped greater Boston, 1893-1945 / James C. O'Connell
  • Reclaiming the middle Charles River reservation / Daniel Driscoll and Karl Haglund
  • Boston's weather and climate histories / William B. Meyer
  • "Rain down righteousness" : interpretations of natural events in mid-eighteenth-century Boston / Lauri Bauer Coleman
  • Biological responses to climate change in Boston / Abraham J. Miller-Rushing and Richard B. Primack.