New Book by Alumni Fellow Chris Pastore Published
Between Land and Sea: The Atlantic Coast and the Transformation of New England
21.10.2014
Christopher Pastore's newest book looks at the environmental history of Narragansett Bay on the North Atlantic coast. This estuary served as a gateway for colonial expansion in the seventeenth century and the birthplace of American industrialization in the late eighteenth. Between Land and Sea traces how the Bay’s complex ecology shaped the contours of European habitation, trade, and resource use, and how littoral settlers in turn reconfigured the physical and cultural boundaries between humans and nature.