Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.
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Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Regional identity and New England landscapes / Joseph A. Conforti — The Handselled globe / Kent C. Ryden — New England forests / LLoyd C. Irland — Women and the White mountains / Kimberly A. Jarvis — Traditional landscapes / Dale Potts — A vision routed in place / Sarah M. Gregg –Stone walls, woodlands, and farm buildings / Mark B. Lapping — A bit of realistic fairy-land / David L. Richards — Landscapes of self-sufficiency / Dona Brown — All at last returns to the sea / Elizabeth Pillsbury — Rethinking conservation / Michael Rawson — Building a tourist landscape in a fragile ecosystem / John T. Cumbler — Bays and barrens and culture in cans / Robert Gee — New England’s legacy landscape / Joseph S. Wood — Water and Steam / Marti Frank — Preserving the illusion of being transported back into the past / James L. Lindgren — Wrought in the spirit of our ancestors / Scott C. Roper — Landscpe and class / Phil Birge-Liberman — The evolution of twentieth-century Boston’s metropolitan landscape / James C. O’Connell — The toxic assault on the New England landscape / Eric J. Krieg — Conclusion / Rachel W. Judd, Blake Harrison.
- 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.
Subjects:
- Landscape assessment — New England — History.
- Land use — New England — History.
- Landscape changes — New England — History.
- Human geography — New England — History.
- New England — Environmental conditions.
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