Remaking Boston : an environmental history of the city and its surroundings / / edited by Anthony N. Penna and Conrad Edick Wright
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Remaking Boston : an environmental history of the city and its surroundings / / edited by Anthony N. Penna and Conrad Edick Wright
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| Pubblicazione: | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2009] |
| ©2009 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (344 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Disciplina: | 333.7709744/61 |
| Soggetto topico: | Environmental policy - Massachusetts - Boston Region - History |
| Environmental degradation - Massachusetts - Boston Region - History | |
| Nature - Effect of human beings on - Massachusetts - Boston Region - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Boston Region (Mass.) Environmental conditions History |
| Persona (resp. second.): | PennaAnthony N. |
| WrightConrad Edick | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Remaking Boston |
| ISBN: | 0-8229-7768-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910788502603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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