Remaking Boston an environmental history of the city and its surroundings

Remaking Boston : an environmental history of the city and its surroundings / edited by Anthony N. Penna and Conrad Edick Wright.

Other author/creator	Penna, Anthony N.
Other author/creator	Wright, Conrad Edick.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press,
Description	vii, 333 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	Environmental policy--Massachusetts --Boston Region --History. Environmental degradation--Massachusetts --Boston Region --History. Nature--Effect of human beings on --Massachusetts --Boston Region --History. Boston Region (Mass.)--Environmental conditions --History.

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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2009029725
ISBN	9780822943815 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0822943816 (cloth : alk. paper)

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