Reasonable Use
Subtitle: The People, the Environment, and the State, New England 1790-1930
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 22, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780195138139
First sentence: On Wednesday morning September 21, 1795, only a year after he was appointed president of Yale College, forty-four-year-old Timothy Dwight began the first of his thirteen excursions through New England and upstate New York.
Description: "In Reasonable Use, Cumbler weaves analysis and biographical vignettes into an engaging narrative that crosses several fields, combining industrial, urban, environmental, legal and political history."--Jacket.