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RECORD NUMBER: 15 OF 88Main Title | Cape Cod : an environmental history of a fragile ecosystem / | |||||||||||
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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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Collation | x, 277 pages ; 23 cm. | |||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |