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Author Cumbler, John T

Title Cape Cod : an environmental history of a fragile ecosystem / John T. Cumbler
Published Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series Environmental History of the Northeast
Environmental history of the Northeast.
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod
Human ecology -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod -- History
SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
Ecology
Human ecology
Nature -- Effect of human beings on
SUBJECT Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Environmental conditions
Subject Massachusetts -- Cape Cod
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781613763377
1613763379