Hands on the Land A History of the Vermont Landscape

Name: Hands on the Land A History of the Vermont Landscape
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ISBN: 9780262511285

ISBN-10: 0262511282

ISBN-13: 9780262511285

Edition: 2002 (Reprint)

Authors: Jan Albers

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Albers shows how Vermont has come to stand for the ideal of unspoilt rural community, examining both the basis of the state's pastoral image and the equally real toll taken by the pressure of human hands on the land.

Book details

List price: $54.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/22/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 8.50" wide x 10.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.794
Language: English

Jan Albers received her doctorate in history from Yale University. She has taught at Yale, the University of Sussex, and Middlebury and St. Michael's Colleges in Vermont.



Foreword


Introduction



Native Vermont



Claiming the Land, 1609-1791



The Classic Agrarian Landscape, 1791-1860



Creating Vermont's Yankee Kingdom, 1860-1945



Choosing Vermont, 1945 to the Present