Cape Cod
Subtitle: an environmental history of a fragile ecosystem
By: John T. Cumbler
Series: Environmental history of the Northeast
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Amherst; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781625341099; 9781625341082
Subjects: Human ecology; History; Nature; Effect of human beings on; Environmental conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The ice, the crow, and the plague : before European exploration; title: From continental drift to nomadic land use; title: Fire, fishing, and farming of native peoples; title: The era of local resource production and extraction : settlement to the start of the twentieth century; title: On the way to an amphibious society; title: Mining the bounty of nature; title: The decline of the established economy; title: Dependence on distant resources, and revenue from recreation : early twentieth century to the present; title: Trains, cars, cottages, and restaurants; title: The golden age of tourism; title: Problems in paradise.