Title Remaking Boston : an environmental history of the city and its surroundings / edited by Anthony N. Penna and Conrad Edick Wright.

Publication Info.	Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2009]
	(Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012).

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Description	1 online resource (vii, 333 pages : illustrations, maps)
Note	OldControl:muse9780822977681.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction : 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.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Boston Region (Mass.) -- Environmental conditions -- History.
	Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Massachusetts -- Boston Region -- History.
	Environmental degradation -- Massachusetts -- Boston Region -- History.
	Environmental policy -- Massachusetts -- Boston Region -- History.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
	HISTORY -- General.
	Ecology. (OCoLC)fst00901476
	Environmental degradation. (OCoLC)fst00912877
	Environmental policy. (OCoLC)fst00913250
	Nature -- Effect of human beings on. (OCoLC)fst01034564
	Massachusetts -- Boston Region. (OCoLC)fst01347190
Indexed Term	"Multi-User"
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author	Wright, Conrad Edick.
	Penna, Anthony N.
Other Form:	Print version: Remaking Boston. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2009 (OCoLC)326569314
ISBN	9780822977681 (electronic bk.)
	0822977680 (electronic bk.)

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