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Author Cumbler, John T.

Title Cape Cod : an environmental history of a fragile ecosystem / John T. Cumbler.

Publication Info. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Environmental history of the Northeast
Environmental history of the Northeast.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Massachusetts -- Cape Cod.
Human ecology -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod -- History.
Human ecology.
History.
Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Environmental conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Cumbler, John T. Cape Cod. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2014 (DLC) 2014019830
ISBN 9781613763377 (electronic book)
1613763379 (electronic book)
9781625341099 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9781625341082 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
1625341083