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16%OFFChristopher L. Pastore - Between Land and Sea: The Atlantic Coast and the Transformation of New England - 9780674281417 - V9780674281417
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Between Land and Sea: The Atlantic Coast and the Transformation of New England

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Description for Between Land and Sea: The Atlantic Coast and the Transformation of New England Hardcover. Christopher Pastore traces how Narragansett Bay's ecology shaped the contours of European habitation, trade, and resource use, and how littoral settlers in turn, over two centuries, transformed a marshy fractal of water and earth into a clearly defined coastline, which proved less able to absorb the blows of human initiative and natural variation. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBJK; RGBP; WNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 241 x 25. Weight in Grams: 606.

One of the largest estuaries on the North Atlantic coast, Narragansett Bay served as a gateway for colonial expansion in the seventeenth century and the birthplace of American industrialization in the late eighteenth. Christopher Pastore presents an environmental history of this watery corner of the Atlantic world, beginning with the first European settlement in 1636 and ending with the dissolution of the Blackstone Canal Company in 1849. Between Land and Sea traces how the Bay’s complex ecology shaped the contours of European habitation, trade, and resource use, and how littoral settlers in turn reconfigured the physical and cultural boundaries between ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674281417
SKU
V9780674281417
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Christopher L. Pastore
Christopher L. Pastore is Assistant Professor of History at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

Reviews for Between Land and Sea: The Atlantic Coast and the Transformation of New England
An exceptional history that weaves broad and compelling theories with [Pastore’s] impressive, place-specific research. [Between Land and Sea] is easy to read and should be useful to professional historians interested in a wide variety of fields including environmental, colonial, maritime, and Atlantic world history, as well as to graduate and undergraduate students looking to expand their understanding of either the ... Read more

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