Remaking Boston : an environmental history of the city and its surroundings /
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| Language: | English |
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2009]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Boston from peninsula to metropolis / Anthony N. Penna
- The drowning of Boston Harbor and the development of the shoreline / Peter S. Rosen and Duncan M. FitzGerald
- What lies beneath : science, nature, and the making of Boston Harbor / Michael Rawson
- Remaking Boston Harbor : cleaning up after ourselves / Steven M. Rudnick
- In search of the Shawmut Peninsula : using modern cartographic analysis to discover the "original" Boston shoreline / Stephen T. Mague
- Remaking Boston, remaking Massachusetts / Brian Donahue
- A city (only partly) on a hill : terrain and land use in pre-twentieth-century Boston / William B. Meyer
- Reforestation in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, 1850-1910 / David Soll
- How metropolitan parks shaped greater Boston, 1893-1945 / James C. O'Connell
- Reclaiming the middle Charles River reservation / Daniel Driscoll and Karl Haglund
- Boston's weather and climate histories / William B. Meyer
- "Rain down righteousness" : interpretations of natural events in mid-eighteenth-century Boston / Lauri Bauer Coleman
- Biological responses to climate change in Boston / Abraham J. Miller-Rushing and Richard B. Primack.