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Main Title Cape Cod : an environmental history of a fragile ecosystem /
Author Cumbler, John T.
Publisher University of Massachusetts Press,
Year Published 2014
OCLC Number 880861072
ISBN 9781625341099; 1625341091; 9781625341082; 1625341083
Subjects Human ecology--Massachusetts--Cape Cod--History ; Nature--Effect of human beings on--Massachusetts--Cape Cod ; Cape Cod (Mass)--Environmental conditions ; Umwelt--(DE-588)4061616-2 ; èOkosystem--(DE-588)4043216-6 ; Cape Cod Bay--(DE-588)4088862-9 ; Fiske--historia--Fèorenta staterna
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EHBM  GF504.M4C86 2014 2 copies CEMM/ACESD Library/Narragansett,RI 05/02/2016
Collation x, 277 pages ; 23 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Notes
The ice, the crow, and the plague : before European exploration -- From continental drift to nomadic land use -- Fire, fishing, and farming of native peoples -- The era of local resource production and extraction : settlement to the start of the twentieth century -- On the way to an amphibious society -- Mining the bounty of nature -- The decline of the established economy -- Dependence on distant resources, and revenue from recreation : early twentieth century to the present -- Trains, cars, cottages, and restaurants -- The golden age of tourism -- Problems in paradise.