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9780300102871

This Fine Piece of Water : An Environmental History of Long Island Sound

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300102871

  • ISBN10:

    0300102879

  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 2004-04-01
  • Publisher: Yale University Press

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Table of Contents

Foreword by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: The Sound 1(8)
Prologue: The Sound Is Dying 9(146)
1 The Birth of the Sound
15(8)
2 Early Residents
23(12)
3 Adriaen Block and the First Explorers
35(21)
4 The American Mediterranean
56(11)
5 The Industrial Age
67(14)
6 Oystering
81(19)
7 Sprawling Suburbs
100(16)
8 Strangling the Sound
116(11)
9 The Brink of Disaster
127(28)
10 Sewage 155(13)
11 The Cleanup 168(34)
12 The New Sound 202(25)
Afterword: Dead Oysters, Dead Lobsters 227(6)
Notes 233(10)
Bibliography 243(6)
Index 249

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