The Hudson
Subtitle: A History
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: March 28, 2007
Place of publication: New Haven; London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780300119909
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: American history; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; Rivers; United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic; History / General
First sentence: The landscape of the Hudson is a giant palimpsest, a great parchment on which the hand of nature has written and rewritten her bold signature for more than a billion years.
Notes: Selected for Association of American University Presses (AAUP) Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries, 2006.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The river and the land; title: Explorers and traders; title: The colonizers arrive; title: The valley transformed; title: The only passage; title: The democratic river; title: Definers of the landscape; title: River of fortunes; title: Twentieth-century waters; title: Map of the Hudson River valley; title: Map of Livingston and Rensselaer family lands