Between land and sea : the Atlantic Coast and the transformation of New England / Christopher L. Pastore.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource (ix, 302 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - text
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- online resource
- 9780674736078
- 0674736079
- Coast changes -- New England -- History
- Atlantic Coast (New England) -- History
- Littoral -- Modifications -- Nouvelle-Angleterre -- Histoire
- Atlantique, Côte de l' (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
- New England
- New England -- Atlantic Coast
- 551.45/70974 23
- GB459.4 .P37 2014eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 17, 2020).
[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 able to absorb the blows of human initiative and natural variation.
In English.
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