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A landscape history of New England / edited by Blake Harrison and Richard W. Judd.
Van Pelt Library GF91.N43 L36 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Landscape assessment--New England--History.
- Landscape assessment.
- Land use--New England--History.
- Land use.
- Landscape changes--New England--History.
- Landscape changes.
- Human geography--New England--History.
- Human geography.
- Environmental conditions.
- History.
- New England--Environmental conditions.
- New England.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 413 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- "All who know and love New England will find something new in this fascinating book, whose authors probe beyond the stereotypes to discover its landscape's many stories."
- -Anne Whiston Spirn, author of The Language of Landscape
- "Each of these finely honed essays offers fresh insight into iconic landscapes we thought we knew. The authors explain the changing meaning of emblematic structures, views, and places, as a craftsman might open the back of a pocket watch to reveal its inner workings. A great read for professionals, students, or anyone who loves New England."
- -Anne Knowles, Geography Department, Middlebury College
- "This volume takes the history of human activity in the intensively built and rebuilt environments of some of America's oldest European settlements and puts it back into the story. It is an excellent work of scholarship that will be useful to scholars in the field and in classrooms. Its many bonbon articles offer wonderful surprises. I fully anticipate the book becoming a must-have collection for historians all over the country, filling an important niche in New England environmental history."
- -Jan Albers, Executive Director, Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History; author of Hands on the Land: A History of the Vermont Landscape Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Regional identity and New England landscapes / Joseph A. Conforti
- The Handselled globe / Kent C. Ryden
- New England forests / LLoyd C. Irland
- Women and the White mountains / Kimberly A. Jarvis
- Traditional landscapes / Dale Potts
- A vision routed in place / Sarah M. Gregg
- Stone walls, woodlands, and farm buildings / Mark B. Lapping
- "A bit of realistic fairy-land" / David L. Richards
- Landscapes of self-sufficiency / Dona Brown
- "All at last returns to the sea" / Elizabeth Pillsbury
- Rethinking conservation / Michael Rawson
- Building a tourist landscape in a fragile ecosystem / John T. Cumbler
- Bays and barrens and culture in cans / Robert Gee
- New England's legacy landscape / Joseph S. Wood
- Water and Steam / Marti Frank
- "Preserving the illusion of being transported back into the past" / James L. Lindgren
- "Wrought in the spirit of our ancestors" / Scott C. Roper
- Landscpe and class / 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
- Conclusion / Rachel W. Judd, Blake Harrison.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0262016400
- 9780262016407
- OCLC:
- 705717051
- Publisher Number:
- 99946135508
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