Against the Tides : Reshaping Landscape and Community in Canada's Maritime Marshlands

• Autore: Rudin Ronald
• Pubblicazione: Vancouver : , : UBC Press, , 2021; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (316 pages)
• Disciplina: 627.540916345
• Soggetto topico: Flood dams and reservoirs; Salt marshes; Reclamation of land
• Soggetto geografico: Fundy, Bay of History
• Soggetto genere / forma: History
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword: Poets among the Engineers -- Preface: In Search of the MMRA -- A Note on Sources -- Prologue: Whose Knowledge? Which Nature? -- Part 1: Second Nature -- 1 Out to Sea -- 2 Reconstruction -- Part 2: Third Nature -- 3 Dam Projects -- 4 Legacies -- Epilogue: Meet the Grand Pre Marsh Body -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Against the Tides tells the compelling story of the rehabilitation of the Maritime marshlands, a project that reshaped not only the landscape of the Bay of Fundy region but the communities that depended on it.
• Altri titoli varianti: From Dismal Swamp to Smiling Farms; Against the Tides
• Titolo autorizzato: Against the Tides
• ISBN: 0-7748-6677-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910511986103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Nature | History | Society