Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Map of New England | p. xiv |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Landscape, Nature, and Regional Identity | p. 15 |
Regional Identity and New England Landscapes | p. 17 |
The Handselled Globe | p. 37 |
Natural Systems, Cultural Process, and the Formation of the New England Landscape | |
Forests and Mountains | p. 51 |
New England Forests | p. 53 |
Two Centuries of a Changing Landscape | |
Women and the White Mountains | p. 71 |
Changing Visions of Nature in New England, 1830-1930 | |
Traditional Landscapes | p. 91 |
Henry Red Eagle and the Native American Presence in the New England Woods | |
Rural Landscapes | p. 109 |
A Vision Rooted in Place | p. 111 |
Conservation Planning in Vermont | |
Stone Walls, Woodlands, and Farm Buildings | p. 129 |
Artifacts of New England's Agrarian Past | |
"A Bit of Realistic Fairy-land" | p. 145 |
Writing the Tourist Landscape | |
Landscapes of Self-Sufficiency | p. 163 |
New England Farms and the Back-to-the-Land Movement of the 1930s | |
Coasts | p. 179 |
"All at Last Returns to the Sea" | p. 181 |
Land Use and Water Quality on Southern New England's Shore | |
Rethinking Conservation | p. 199 |
The Nineteenth-Century Battle to Save Boston Harbor | |
Building a Tourist Landscape in a Fragile Ecosystem | p. 213 |
Cape Cod in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries | |
Bays and Barrens and Culture in Cans | p. 231 |
Reconceptualizing Coastal Landscapes in Downeast Maine | |
Villages, Towns, and Cities | p. 249 |
New England's Legacy Landscape | p. 251 |
Water and Steam | p. 269 |
How Industrial Power Shaped the New England Landscape | |
"Preserving the Illusion of Being Transported Back into the Past" | p. 285 Remaking |
"Wrought in the Spirit of Our Ancestors" | p. 303 |
Ethnicity, Scale, and the Reinvention of a New England Town | |
Landscape and Class | p. 323 |
Public Parks as Environmental Amenities in Nineteenth-Century Boston | |
The Evolution of Twentieth-Century Boston's Metropolitan Landscape | p. 341 |
The Toxic Assault on the New England Landscape | p. 361 |
Conclusion | p. 379 |
Afterword: "Back in a time made simple by the loss/Of detail..." | p. 389 |
About the Contributors | p. 403 |
Index | p. 407 |
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