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Shipwrecked : Coastal Disasters and the Making of the American Beach /
"Reframing the American story from the vantage point of the nation's watery edges, Jamin Wells shows that disasters have not only bedeviled the American beach--they created it. Though the American beach is now one of the most commercialized, contested, and engineered places on the planet,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The American coastal frontier
- Taming the beach: wreckers and wreck law on the Jersey shore
- Transforming the shore: tourism, lifesavers, and the rise of Quonnie
- Clearing the coast: Captain T.A. Scott, a "True American"
- Shipwreck and spectacle on the modern beach.