Cape Cod : an environmental history of a fragile ecosystem /
Cumbler, John T.
Cape Cod : an environmental history of a fragile ecosystem / John T. Cumbler. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource. - Environmental history of the Northeast .
Includes bibliographies and index.
The ice, the crow, and the plague : before European exploration -- From continental drift to nomadic land use -- Fire, fishing, and farming of native peoples -- The era of local resource production and extraction : settlement to the start of the twentieth century -- On the way to an amphibious society -- Mining the bounty of nature -- The decline of the established economy -- Dependence on distant resources, and revenue from recreation : early twentieth century to the present -- Trains, cars, cottages, and restaurants -- The golden age of tourism -- Problems in paradise.
9781613763377
Nature--Effect of human beings on--Massachusetts--Cape Cod.
Human ecology--History.--Massachusetts--Cape Cod
Electronic Books.
GF504 / .C374 2014
Cape Cod : an environmental history of a fragile ecosystem / John T. Cumbler. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource. - Environmental history of the Northeast .
Includes bibliographies and index.
The ice, the crow, and the plague : before European exploration -- From continental drift to nomadic land use -- Fire, fishing, and farming of native peoples -- The era of local resource production and extraction : settlement to the start of the twentieth century -- On the way to an amphibious society -- Mining the bounty of nature -- The decline of the established economy -- Dependence on distant resources, and revenue from recreation : early twentieth century to the present -- Trains, cars, cottages, and restaurants -- The golden age of tourism -- Problems in paradise.
9781613763377
Nature--Effect of human beings on--Massachusetts--Cape Cod.
Human ecology--History.--Massachusetts--Cape Cod
Electronic Books.
GF504 / .C374 2014