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Author : Christopher J. Lenney
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Historic sites
ISBN : 1584654635
A startlingly original synthesis of keen observation and interpretive skill that will transform one s understanding of New England s man-made landscape"
Author : Blake A. Harrison,Richard William Judd
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0262525275
This book takes a view of New England's landscapes that goes beyond picture postcard-ready vistas of white-steepled churches, open pastures, and tree-covered mountains. Its chapters describe, for example, the Native American presence in the Maine Woods; offer a history of agriculture told through stone walls, woodlands, and farm buildings; report on the fragile ecology of tourist-friendly Cape Cod beaches; and reveal the ethnic stereotypes informing Colonial Revivalism. Taken together, they offer a wide-ranging history of New England's diverse landscapes, stretching across two centuries. The book shows that all New England landscapes are the products of human agency as well as nature. The authors trace the roles that work, recreation, historic preservation, conservation, and environmentalism have played in shaping the region, and they highlight the diversity of historical actors who have transformed both its meaning and its physical form. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, including history, geography, environmental studies, literature, art history, and historic preservation, the book provides fresh perspectives on New England's many landscapes: forests, mountains, farms, coasts, industrial areas, villages, towns, and cities. Illustrated, and with many archival photographs, it offers readers a solid historical foundation for understanding the great variety of places that make up New England.
Author : Tom Wessels
Publisher : Nature
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0881504203
Chronicles the forest in New England from the Ice Age to current challenges
Author : William Cronon
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429928281
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize Changes in the Land offers an original and persuasive interpretation of the changing circumstances in New England's plant and animal communities that occurred with the shift from Indian to European dominance. With the tools of both historian and ecologist, Cronon constructs an interdisciplinary analysis of how the land and the people influenced one another, and how that complex web of relationships shaped New England's communities.
Author : Richard William Judd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Human ecology
ISBN : 1625341016
8. Conserving Urban Ecologies -- 9. Saving Second Nature -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621968641
Author : David R. Foster,John F. O'Keefe
Publisher : Harvard University Forest
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015050252413
Over the past three hundred years New England's landscape has been transformed. The forests were cleared; the land was farmed intensively through the mid-nineteenth century and then was allowed to reforest naturally as agriculture shifted west. Today, in many ways the region is more natural than at any time since the American Revolution. This fascinating natural history is essential background for anyone interested in New England's ecology, wildlife, or landscape. In New England Forests through Time these historical and environmental lessons are told through the world-renowned dioramas in Harvard's Fisher Museum. These remarkable models have introduced New England's landscape to countless visitors and have appeared in many ecology, forestry, and natural history texts. This first book based on the dioramas conveys the phenomenal history of the land, the beauty of the models, and new insights into nature.
Author : William Hubbell
Publisher : Down East Books
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-17
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781461745136
For this stunning new volume, photographer William Hubbell has turned his lens toward New England's ubiquitous stone walls. Beginning with the basic geology of the region and why New England has so many darned rocks, he presents a chronological overview of the varying styles and methods of wall building, and includes conversations with six contemporary wall builders. The result is a surprising and refreshing look at stone walls and at the history of New England.
Author : Peter M. LeTourneau,Robert Pagini
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780819576835
Stunning photography and fact-filled text reveal new perspectives on southern New England's most unique natural region. A picturesque journey through the traprock highlands from New Haven, Connecticut to Amherst, Massachusetts, this book captures the majesty of wild windswept cliffs, panoramic summit vistas, and intimate details of the natural world through the eyes of an artist and the mind of a scientist. By tracing the influence of natural history on cultural development in the Connecticut Valley, the authors present a compelling argument that the rocky highlands are landscapes of national significance, where the particular combination of geology, geography, water resources, climate, and human settlement fostered vital developments in Early American science, education, agriculture, manufacturing, technology, and the creative arts. Through vibrant color photographs of high alpine crags and lush forests, thundering waterfalls and splashing cascades, and close-up views of the rocks, flowers, and birds, The Traprock Landscapes of New England presents the incomparable beauty of the region as never before. Overflowing with information, long-time fans, first-time visitors, nature lovers, rock climbers, history buffs, land use managers, and many others will find plenty to satisfy in the detailed text and captions, crisp photos, historical images, informative maps, and more. Showcasing popular locales, and revealing “secret spots,” this must-have resource will encourage old friends and newcomers alike to visit the rugged crags once called “the boldest and most beautiful” landscapes in New England.
Author : Priscilla Paton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015052661611
An examination of artists and poets and the New England landscape that inspired their work.
Author : Tom Wessels
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781581578577
Take some of the mystery out of a walk in the woods with this new field guide from the author of Reading the Forested Landscape. Thousands of readers have had their experience of being in a forest changed forever by reading Tom Wessels's Reading the Forested Landscape. Was this forest once farmland? Was it logged in the past? Was there ever a major catastrophe like a fire or a wind storm that brought trees down? Now Wessels takes that wonderful ability to discern much of the history of the forest from visual clues and boils it all down to a manageable field guide that you can take out to the woods and use to start playing forest detective yourself. Wessels has created a key—a fascinating series of either/or questions—to guide you through the process of analyzing what you see. You’ll feel like a woodland Sherlock Holmes. No walk in the woods will ever be the same.
Author : Robert Thorson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802719201
There once may have been 250,000 miles of stone walls in America's Northeast, stretching farther than the distance to the moon. They took three billion man-hours to build. And even though most are crumbling today, they contain a magnificent scientific and cultural story-about the geothermal forces that formed their stones, the tectonic movements that brought them to the surface, the glacial tide that broke them apart, the earth that held them for so long, and about the humans who built them. Stone walls layer time like Russian dolls, their smallest elements reflecting the longest spans, and Thorson urges us to study them, for each stone has its own story. Linking geological history to the early American experience, Stone by Stone presents a fascinating picture of the land the Pilgrims settled, allowing us to see and understand it with new eyes.
Author : Paul Readman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108424738
The relationship between landscape and identity is explored to reveal how Englishness encompasses the urban and rural, and the north and south.
Author : Joseph A. Conforti
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807875063
Say "New England" and you likely conjure up an image in the mind of your listener: the snowy woods or stone wall of a Robert Frost poem, perhaps, or that quintessential icon of the region--the idyllic white village. Such images remind us that, as Joseph Conforti notes, a region is not just a territory on the ground. It is also a place in the imagination. This ambitious work investigates New England as a cultural invention, tracing the region's changing identity across more than three centuries. Incorporating insights from history, literature, art, material culture, and geography, it shows how succeeding generations of New Englanders created and broadcast a powerful collective identity for their region through narratives about its past. Whether these stories were told in the writings of Frost or Harriet Beecher Stowe, enacted in historical pageants or at colonial revival museums, or conveyed in the pages of a geography textbook or Yankee magazine, New Englanders used them to sustain their identity, revising them as needed to respond to the shifting regional landscape.
Author : Dona Brown
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781560987994
Quaint, charming, nostalgic New England: rustic fishing villages, romantic seaside cottages, breathtaking mountain vistas, peaceful rural settings. In Inventing New England, Dona Brown traces the creation of these calendar-page images and describes how tourism as a business emerged and came to shape the landscape, economy, and culture of a region. By the latter nineteenth century, Brown argues, tourism had become an integral part of New England's rural economy, and the short vacation a fixture of middle-class life. Focusing on such meccas as the White Mountains, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, coastal Maine, and Vermont, Brown describes how failed port cities, abandoned farms, and even scenery were churned through powerful marketing engines promoting nostalgia. She also examines the irony of an industry that was based on an escape from commerce but served as an engine of industrial development, spawning hotel construction, land speculation, the spread of wage labor, and a vast market for guidebooks and other publications.