Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Boston from Peninsula to Metropolis - Anthony N. Penna
The Harbor
2. The Drowning of Boston Harbor and the Development of the Shoreline - Peter S. Rosen and Duncan M. FitzGerald
3. What Lies Beneath: Science, Nature, and the Making of Boston Harbor - Michael Rawson
4. Remaking Boston Harbor: Cleaning Up After Ourselves - Steven M. Rudnick
5. In Search of the Shawmut Peninsula: Using Modern Cartographic Analysis to Discover the "Original" Boston Shoreline - StephenT.Mague
The Town and Countryside
6. Remaking Boston, Remaking Massachusetts - Brian Donahue
7. A City (Only Partly) on a Hill: Terrain and Land Use in Pre-Twentieth Century Boston - William B. Meyer
8. Reforestation in Norfolk County, Massachusettes, 1850-1910 - David Soll
9. How Metropolitan Parks Shaped Greater Boston, 1893-1945 - James C. O’Connell
10. Reclaiming the Middle Charles River Reservation - Daniel Driscoll and Karl Haglund
The Climate and the Weather
11. Boston's Weather and Climate Histories - William B. Meyer
12. "Rain Down Righteousness": Interpretations of Natural Events in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Boston - Lauri Bauer Coleman
13. Biological Responses to Climate Change in Boston - Abraham J. Miller-Rushing and Richard B. Primack
Notes
Contributors
Index