Author: Christopher L. Pastore

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2014-10-13

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0674281411

Christopher Pastore traces how Narragansett Bay’s ecology shaped the contours of European habitation, trade, and resource use, and how littoral settlers in turn, over two centuries, transformed a marshy fractal of water and earth into a clearly defined coastline, which proved less able to absorb the blows of human initiative and natural variation.