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Description for Cape Cod
Paperback. Offers an environmental, social, and economic history of Cape Cod told through the experiences of residents as well as visitors and covering a span of four hundred years. It narrates its history of resource scarcity and its attempts to deal with that scarcity offer useful lessons for anyone addressing similar issues around the globe. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; HBT; KCN; RNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
To many, Cape Cod represents the classic setting for an American summer vacation. Attracting seasonal tourists with picturesque beaches and abundant seafood, the Cape has held a place in our national imagination for almost two hundred years. People have been drawn to its beauty and resources since Native Americans wandered up its long sandy peninsula some 12,000 years ago, while writers such as Henry David Thoreau and Norman Mailer have celebrated its mystery and allure. But, despite its idealized image, Cape Cod has a long history of scarcity and an increasingly evident fragility.
John T. Cumbler’s book offers an ... Read more
To many, Cape Cod represents the classic setting for an American summer vacation. Attracting seasonal tourists with picturesque beaches and abundant seafood, the Cape has held a place in our national imagination for almost two hundred years. People have been drawn to its beauty and resources since Native Americans wandered up its long sandy peninsula some 12,000 years ago, while writers such as Henry David Thoreau and Norman Mailer have celebrated its mystery and allure. But, despite its idealized image, Cape Cod has a long history of scarcity and an increasingly evident fragility.
John T. Cumbler’s book offers an ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781625341099
SKU
V9781625341099
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About John T. Cumbler
John T. Cumbler is professor of history at the University of Louisville and spends half of the year in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. He is the author of numerous books, including From Abolition to Rights for All: The Making of a Reform Community in the Nineteenth Century and Reasonable Use: The People, the Environment, and the State, New England, 1790–1930.
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