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Remaking Boston an environmental history of the city and its surroundings

Title
Remaking Boston [electronic resource] : an environmental history of the city and its surroundings / edited by Anthony N. Penna and Conrad Edick Wright.
Publication
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Penna, Anthony N.
  • Wright, Conrad Edick.
Description
1 online resource (vii, 333 p.) : ill., maps.
Uniform Title
Remaking Boston (Online)
Subject
  • Environmental policy > Massachusetts > Boston Region > History
  • Environmental degradation > Massachusetts > Boston Region > History
  • Nature > Effect of human beings on > History. > Massachusetts > Boston Region
  • Boston Region (Mass.) > Environmental conditions > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
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.
LCCN
2009029725
OCLC
ssj0000607639
Title
Remaking Boston [electronic resource] : an environmental history of the city and its surroundings / edited by Anthony N. Penna and Conrad Edick Wright.
Imprint
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2009.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Penna, Anthony N.
Wright, Conrad Edick.
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