Author: Thomas Prince
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
A Chronological History of New England
Author: Thomas Prince
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
A Landscape History of New England
Author: Blake A. Harrison
Publisher: Mit Press
ISBN: 9780262525275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book takes a view of New England's landscapes that goes beyond picture postcard-ready vistas of white-steepled churches, open pastures, and tree-covered mountains. Its chapters describe, for example, the Native American presence in the Maine Woods; offer a history of agriculture told through stone walls, woodlands, and farm buildings; report on the fragile ecology of tourist-friendly Cape Cod beaches; and reveal the ethnic stereotypes informing Colonial Revivalism. Taken together, they offer a wide-ranging history of New England's diverse landscapes, stretching across two centuries. The book shows that all New England landscapes are the products of human agency as well as nature. The authors trace the roles that work, recreation, historic preservation, conservation, and environmentalism have played in shaping the region, and they highlight the diversity of historical actors who have transformed both its meaning and its physical form. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, including history, geography, environmental studies, literature, art history, and historic preservation, the book provides fresh perspectives on New England's many landscapes: forests, mountains, farms, coasts, industrial areas, villages, towns, and cities. Illustrated, and with many archival photographs, it offers readers a solid historical foundation for understanding the great variety of places that make up New England.
Publisher: Mit Press
ISBN: 9780262525275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book takes a view of New England's landscapes that goes beyond picture postcard-ready vistas of white-steepled churches, open pastures, and tree-covered mountains. Its chapters describe, for example, the Native American presence in the Maine Woods; offer a history of agriculture told through stone walls, woodlands, and farm buildings; report on the fragile ecology of tourist-friendly Cape Cod beaches; and reveal the ethnic stereotypes informing Colonial Revivalism. Taken together, they offer a wide-ranging history of New England's diverse landscapes, stretching across two centuries. The book shows that all New England landscapes are the products of human agency as well as nature. The authors trace the roles that work, recreation, historic preservation, conservation, and environmentalism have played in shaping the region, and they highlight the diversity of historical actors who have transformed both its meaning and its physical form. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, including history, geography, environmental studies, literature, art history, and historic preservation, the book provides fresh perspectives on New England's many landscapes: forests, mountains, farms, coasts, industrial areas, villages, towns, and cities. Illustrated, and with many archival photographs, it offers readers a solid historical foundation for understanding the great variety of places that make up New England.
A Chronological History of New-England
Author: Thomas Prince
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chronology, Historical
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chronology, Historical
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Winthrop's Journal, "History of New England," 1630-1649
Author: John Winthrop
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A General History of New England, from the Discovery to MDCLXXX
Author: William Hubbard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
A New England?
Author: G. R. Searle
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199284407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 991
Book Description
G.R. Searle's narrative history breaks conventional chronological barriers to carry the reader from England in 1886, the apogee of the Victorian era with the nation poised to celebrate the empress queen's golden jubilee, to 1918, as the 'war to end all wars' drew to a close.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199284407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 991
Book Description
G.R. Searle's narrative history breaks conventional chronological barriers to carry the reader from England in 1886, the apogee of the Victorian era with the nation poised to celebrate the empress queen's golden jubilee, to 1918, as the 'war to end all wars' drew to a close.
Second Nature
Author: Richard William Judd
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781625341013
Category : Human ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
8. Conserving Urban Ecologies -- 9. Saving Second Nature -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781625341013
Category : Human ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
8. Conserving Urban Ecologies -- 9. Saving Second Nature -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover
Annals of New-England
Author: Thomas Prince
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
A New England Town
Author: Kenneth A. Lockridge
Publisher: New York : Norton
ISBN: 9780393053814
Category : Dedham (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Norton
ISBN: 9780393053814
Category : Dedham (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Stone by Stone
Author: Robert Thorson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802719201
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
There once may have been 250,000 miles of stone walls in America's Northeast, stretching farther than the distance to the moon. They took three billion man-hours to build. And even though most are crumbling today, they contain a magnificent scientific and cultural story-about the geothermal forces that formed their stones, the tectonic movements that brought them to the surface, the glacial tide that broke them apart, the earth that held them for so long, and about the humans who built them. Stone walls layer time like Russian dolls, their smallest elements reflecting the longest spans, and Thorson urges us to study them, for each stone has its own story. Linking geological history to the early American experience, Stone by Stone presents a fascinating picture of the land the Pilgrims settled, allowing us to see and understand it with new eyes.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802719201
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
There once may have been 250,000 miles of stone walls in America's Northeast, stretching farther than the distance to the moon. They took three billion man-hours to build. And even though most are crumbling today, they contain a magnificent scientific and cultural story-about the geothermal forces that formed their stones, the tectonic movements that brought them to the surface, the glacial tide that broke them apart, the earth that held them for so long, and about the humans who built them. Stone walls layer time like Russian dolls, their smallest elements reflecting the longest spans, and Thorson urges us to study them, for each stone has its own story. Linking geological history to the early American experience, Stone by Stone presents a fascinating picture of the land the Pilgrims settled, allowing us to see and understand it with new eyes.