Shipwrecked: coastal disasters and the making of the American beach

"Reframing the American story from the vantage point of the nation's watery edges, Jamin Wells shows that disasters have not only bedeviled the American beach--they created it. Though the American beach is now one of the most commercialized, contested, and engineered places on the planet,...

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Main Author: Wells, Jamin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press [2020]
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Summary:"Reframing the American story from the vantage point of the nation's watery edges, Jamin Wells shows that disasters have not only bedeviled the American beach--they created it. Though the American beach is now one of the most commercialized, contested, and engineered places on the planet, few people visited it or called it home at the beginning of the nineteenth century. By the twentieth century, the American beach had become the summer encampment of presidents, a common destination for millions of citizens, and the site of rapidly growing beachfront communities. Shipwrecked tells the story of this epic transformation, arguing that coastal shipwrecks themselves changed how Americans viewed, used, and inhabited the shoreline"--
Physical Description:xiii, 242 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 25 cm
ISBN:9781469660905
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