Nature Next Door: Cities and Trees in the American Northeast

by Ellen Stroud

Book Overview

The once denuded northeastern United States is now a region of trees. Nature Next Door argues that the growth of cities, the construction of parks, the transformation of farming, the boom in tourism, and changes in the timber industry have together brought about a return of northeastern forests. Although historians and historical actors alike have seen urban and rural areas as distinct, they are in fact intertwined, and the dichotomies of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295993316
• ISBN13: 9780295993317
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 7.7"