Between land and sea :: the Atlantic Coast and the transformation of New England /
"One of the largest estuaries on the North Atlantic coast, Narragansett Bay served as a gateway for colonial expansion in the seventeenth century and the birthplace of American industrialization in the late eighteenth. Christopher Pastore presents an environmental history of this watery corner...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "One of the largest estuaries on the North Atlantic coast, Narragansett Bay served as a gateway for colonial expansion in the seventeenth century and the birthplace of American industrialization in the late eighteenth. Christopher Pastore presents an environmental history of this watery corner of the Atlantic world, beginning with the first European settlement in 1636 and ending with the dissolution of the Blackstone Canal Company in 1849. Between Land and Sea traces how the Bay's complex ecology shaped the contours of European habitation, trade, and resource use, and how littoral settlers in turn reconfigured the physical and cultural boundaries between humans and nature. Narragansett Bay emerges in Pastore's account as much more than a geological formation. Rather, he reimagines the nexus of land and sea as a brackish borderland shaped by the tension between what English settlers saw as improvable land and the perpetual forces of the North Atlantic Ocean. By draining swamps, damming rivers, and digging canals, settlers transformed a marshy coastal margin into a clearly defined edge. The resultant "coastline" proved less resilient, less able to absorb the blows of human initiative and natural variation than the soggy fractal of water and earth it replaced. Today, as sea levels rise and superstorms batter coasts with increasing ferocity, Between Land and Sea calls on the environmentally-minded to make a space in their notions of progress for impermanence and uncertainty in the natural world"--Jacket. [Description]Christopher Pastore traces how Narragansett Bay's ecology shaped the contours of European habitation, trade, and resource use, and how littoral settlers in turn, over two centuries, transformed a marshy fractal of water and earth into a clearly defined coastline, which proved less able to absorb the blows of human initiative and natural variation. |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (ix, 302 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674736078 0674736079 |
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| spelling | Pastore, Christopher L., author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2014031686 Between land and sea : the Atlantic Coast and the transformation of New England / Christopher L. Pastore. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014. ©2014 1 online resource (ix, 302 pages) : illustrations, maps text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file Includes bibliographical references and index. Prologue : from sweetwater to seawater -- Clams, dams, and the desiccation of New England -- Shoveling dung against the tide -- The geographic quicksilver of Narragansett Bay -- Natural knowledge and a bay in transition -- Improving coastal space during a century of war -- Carving the industrial coastline -- Epilogue : between progress and the pull of the sea. "One of the largest estuaries on the North Atlantic coast, Narragansett Bay served as a gateway for colonial expansion in the seventeenth century and the birthplace of American industrialization in the late eighteenth. Christopher Pastore presents an environmental history of this watery corner of the Atlantic world, beginning with the first European settlement in 1636 and ending with the dissolution of the Blackstone Canal Company in 1849. Between Land and Sea traces how the Bay's complex ecology shaped the contours of European habitation, trade, and resource use, and how littoral settlers in turn reconfigured the physical and cultural boundaries between humans and nature. Narragansett Bay emerges in Pastore's account as much more than a geological formation. Rather, he reimagines the nexus of land and sea as a brackish borderland shaped by the tension between what English settlers saw as improvable land and the perpetual forces of the North Atlantic Ocean. By draining swamps, damming rivers, and digging canals, settlers transformed a marshy coastal margin into a clearly defined edge. The resultant "coastline" proved less resilient, less able to absorb the blows of human initiative and natural variation than the soggy fractal of water and earth it replaced. Today, as sea levels rise and superstorms batter coasts with increasing ferocity, Between Land and Sea calls on the environmentally-minded to make a space in their notions of progress for impermanence and uncertainty in the natural world"--Jacket. [Description]Christopher Pastore traces how Narragansett Bay's ecology shaped the contours of European habitation, trade, and resource use, and how littoral settlers in turn, over two centuries, transformed a marshy fractal of water and earth into a clearly defined coastline, which proved less able to absorb the blows of human initiative and natural variation. In English. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 04, 2024). Coast changes New England History. Atlantic Coast (New England) History. Littoral Modifications Nouvelle-Angleterre Histoire. Atlantique, Côte de l' (Nouvelle-Angleterre) Histoire. SCIENCE Earth Sciences Geography. bisacsh SCIENCE Earth Sciences Geology. bisacsh HISTORY United States State & Local New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) bisacsh Coast changes fast New England fast New England Atlantic Coast fast History fast Print version: Pastore, Christopher L. Between land and sea 9780674281417 (DLC) 2014008171 (OCoLC)875999875 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=856132 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Pastore, Christopher L. Between land and sea : the Atlantic Coast and the transformation of New England / Prologue : from sweetwater to seawater -- Clams, dams, and the desiccation of New England -- Shoveling dung against the tide -- The geographic quicksilver of Narragansett Bay -- Natural knowledge and a bay in transition -- Improving coastal space during a century of war -- Carving the industrial coastline -- Epilogue : between progress and the pull of the sea. Coast changes New England History. Littoral Modifications Nouvelle-Angleterre Histoire. SCIENCE Earth Sciences Geography. bisacsh SCIENCE Earth Sciences Geology. bisacsh HISTORY United States State & Local New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) bisacsh Coast changes fast |
| title | Between land and sea : the Atlantic Coast and the transformation of New England / |
| title_auth | Between land and sea : the Atlantic Coast and the transformation of New England / |
| title_exact_search | Between land and sea : the Atlantic Coast and the transformation of New England / |
| title_full | Between land and sea : the Atlantic Coast and the transformation of New England / Christopher L. Pastore. |
| title_fullStr | Between land and sea : the Atlantic Coast and the transformation of New England / Christopher L. Pastore. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Between land and sea : the Atlantic Coast and the transformation of New England / Christopher L. Pastore. |
| title_short | Between land and sea : |
| title_sort | between land and sea the atlantic coast and the transformation of new england |
| title_sub | the Atlantic Coast and the transformation of New England / |
| topic | Coast changes New England History. Littoral Modifications Nouvelle-Angleterre Histoire. SCIENCE Earth Sciences Geography. bisacsh SCIENCE Earth Sciences Geology. bisacsh HISTORY United States State & Local New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) bisacsh Coast changes fast |
| topic_facet | Coast changes New England History. Atlantic Coast (New England) History. Littoral Modifications Nouvelle-Angleterre Histoire. Atlantique, Côte de l' (Nouvelle-Angleterre) Histoire. SCIENCE Earth Sciences Geography. SCIENCE Earth Sciences Geology. HISTORY United States State & Local New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) Coast changes New England New England Atlantic Coast History |
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