Sightseeking - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sightseeking write by Christopher J. Lenney. This book was released on 2005. Sightseeking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A startlingly original synthesis of keen observation and interpretive skill that will transform one s understanding of New England s man-made landscape"
A Landscape History of New England
A Landscape History of New England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Landscape History of New England write by Blake A. Harrison. This book was released on 2013-09. A Landscape History of New England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Reading the Forested Landscape
Reading the Forested Landscape - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading the Forested Landscape write by Tom Wessels. This book was released on 1999. Reading the Forested Landscape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chronicles the forest in New England from the Ice Age to current challenges
New England Forests Through Time
New England Forests Through Time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New England Forests Through Time write by David R. Foster. This book was released on 2000. New England Forests Through Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the past three hundred years New England's landscape has been transformed. The forests were cleared; the land was farmed intensively through the mid-nineteenth century and then was allowed to reforest naturally as agriculture shifted west. Today, in many ways the region is more natural than at any time since the American Revolution. This fascinating natural history is essential background for anyone interested in New England's ecology, wildlife, or landscape. In New England Forests through Time these historical and environmental lessons are told through the world-renowned dioramas in Harvard's Fisher Museum. These remarkable models have introduced New England's landscape to countless visitors and have appeared in many ecology, forestry, and natural history texts. This first book based on the dioramas conveys the phenomenal history of the land, the beauty of the models, and new insights into nature.
Changes in the Land
Changes in the Land - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Changes in the Land write by William Cronon. This book was released on 2011-04-01. Changes in the Land available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an updated afterword by the author and a new preface by the distinguished colonialist John Demos, Changes in the Land, provides a brilliant inter-disciplinary interpretation of how land and people influence one another. With its chilling closing line, "The people of plenty were a people of waste," Cronon's enduring and thought-provoking book is ethno-ecological history at its best.
