Shipwrecked: Coastal Disasters and the Making of the American Beach - Paperback
by Jamin Wells
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9781469660905ISBN-10:1469660903UPC:9781469660905Book Category:Social Science, Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Disasters & Disaster Relief, Environmental Science (see also Chemistry, Historical GeographyBook Topic:Environmental)Size:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.8907Product ID:SC28HP74VA
Shipwrecked: Coastal Disasters and the Making of the American Beach
Reframing the American story from the vantage point of the nation's watery edges, Jamin Wells shows that disasters have not only bedeviled the American beach--they created it. Though the American beach is now one of the most commercialized, contested, and engineered places on the planet, few people visited it or called it home at the beginning of the nineteenth century. By the twentieth century,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9781469660905ISBN-10:1469660903UPC:9781469660905Book Category:Social Science, Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Disasters & Disaster Relief, Environmental Science (see also Chemistry, Historical GeographyBook Topic:Environmental)Size:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.8907Product ID:SC28HP74VA
Wells, Jamin: - Jamin Wells is assistant professor of history at the University of West Florida.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
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