Nantilus
A landscape history of New England
This book takes a view of New England's landscapes that goes beyond picture postcard-ready vistas of white-steepled churches, open pastures, and tree-covered mountains. Its chapters describe, for example, the Native American presence in the Maine Woods; offer a history of agriculture told throu...
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| Autres auteurs : | , |
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | A landscape history of New England / edited by Blake Harrison and Richard W. Judd |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press
, c2011 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (xii, 413 p.) |
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- Regional identity and New England landscapes / Joseph A. Conforti
- The handselled globe : natural systems, cultural process, and the formation of the New England landscape / Kent C. Ryden
- New England forests : two centuries of a changing landscape / Lloyd C. Irland
- Women and the White Mountains : changing visions of nature in New England, 1830-1930 / Kimberly A. Jarvis
- Traditional landscapes : Henry Red Eagle and the Native American presence in the New England woods / Dale Potts
- A vision rooted in place : conservation planning in Vermont / Sara M. Gregg
- Stone walls, woodlands, and farm buildings : artifacts of New England's agrarian past / Mark B. Lapping
- "A bit of realistic fairy-land" : writing the tourist landscape / David L. Richards
- Landscapes of self-sufficiency : New England farms and the back-to-the-land movement of the 1930s / Dona Brown
- "All at last returns to the sea" : land use and water quality on southern New England's shore / Elizabeth Pillsbury
- Rethinking conservation the nineteenth-century battle to save Boston Harbor / Michael Rawson
- Building a tourist landscape in a fragile ecosystem : Cape Cod in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / John T. Cumbler
- Bays and barrens and culture in cans : reconceptualizing coastal landscapes in downeast Maine / Robert Gee
- New England's legacy landscape / Joseph S. Wood
- Water and steam : how industrial power shaped the New England landscape / Marti Frank
- "Preserving the illusion of being transported back into the past" : remaking landscapes through historic preservation / James M. Lindgren
- "Wrought in the spirit of our ancestors" : ethnicity, scale, and the reinvention of a New England town / Scott C. Roper
- Landscape and class : public parks as environmental amenities in nineteenth-century Boston / Phil Birge-Liberman
- The evolution of twentieth-century Boston's metropolitan landscape / James C. O'Connell
- The toxic assault on the New England landscape / Eric J. Krieg