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

• 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.

Ämnesord

Human ecology  -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod -- History. (LCSH)

Nature  -- Effect of human beings on -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod. (LCSH)

Ecology.  (fast)

Human ecology.  (fast)

Nature  -- Effect of human beings on. (fast)

Fiske  -- historia -- Förenta staterna (sao)

Cape Cod (Mass.)  -- Environmental conditions. (LCSH)

Massachusetts  -- Cape Cod. (fast)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Klassifikation

GF504.M4 (LCC)

304.209744/92 (DDC)

Uhb (kssb/8 (machine generated))