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245 0 0 _aRemaking Boston :
_ban environmental history of the city and its surroundings /
_cedited by Anthony N. Penna and Conrad Edick Wright.
264 1 _aPittsburgh, Pennsylvania :
_bUniversity of Pittsburgh Press,
_c[2009]
264 4 _c2009
300 _a1 online resource (344 pages) :
_billustrations, maps
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction : 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aEnvironmental policy
_zMassachusetts
_zBoston Region
_xHistory.
650 0 _aEnvironmental degradation
_zMassachusetts
_zBoston Region
_xHistory.
650 0 _aNature
_xEffect of human beings on
_zMassachusetts
_zBoston Region
_xHistory.
651 0 _aBoston Region (Mass.)
_xEnvironmental conditions
_xHistory.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aPenna, Anthony N.,
_eeditor.
700 1 _aWright, Conrad Edick,
_eeditor.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tRemaking Boston : an environmental history of the city and its surroundings.
_dPittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2009]
_hvii, 333 pages ; 25 cm
_z9780822943815
_w(OCoLC)ocn326569314
_w(DLC)10863975
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=2039306
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