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Dunwell, Frances F.
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Human ecology -- New York (State) -- Hudson Highlands.
Public opinion -- United States.
Hudson Highlands (N.Y.) -- History.
Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- History.
Hudson Highlands (N.Y.) -- Environmental conditions.
Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Environmental conditions.
Hudson Highlands (N.Y.) -- History -- Sources.
Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- History -- Sources.
Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Public opinion.
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The Hudson : America...
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The Hudson : America's river / Frances F. Dunwell.
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Dunwell, Frances F.
New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.
Subjects
Human ecology -- New York (State) -- Hudson Highlands.
Public opinion -- United States.
Hudson Highlands (N.Y.) -- History.
Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- History.
Hudson Highlands (N.Y.) -- Environmental conditions.
Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Environmental conditions.
Hudson Highlands (N.Y.) -- History -- Sources.
Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- History -- Sources.
Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Public opinion.
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0718/2007017963.html
ISBN:
9780231136402 (cloth : alk. paper) :
0231136404 (cloth : alk. paper) :
Description:
xxiv, 363 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 28 cm.
Contents:
1. World's end, world trade, world river : Henry Hudson's failed quest, Adriaen Van der Donck's utopian vision, and the legend of the storm ship -- 2. The river that unites, the river that divides : King George and George Washington vie for the Hudson -- 3. America's river of empire : Robert Fulton's folly, Robert Livingston's venture capital, and DeWitt Clinton's ditch spark the rise of New York port -- 4. First stop on the American tour : Europe discovers Sylvanus Thayer's West Point, a Catskills sunrise, and a river that defines the American character -- 5. America's first artists and writers : the sacred river of Thomas Cole, the mythic river of Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper -- 6. The industrialized river : Gouverneur Kemble's weapon works, Henry Burden's iron foundries, and Colonel Stevens's engine factory --7. Going up the river for health and fun : New York City journalist N.P. Willis survives TB and discovers an idle wild -- 8. Design with nature : the landscape gardens of A.J. Downing, the architecture of A.J. Davis, and the inspiration for Central Park and Riverside Drive -- 9. Gateway to America, escape route to Canada : immigrants greet a beacon of liberty, John Jervis creates a new river route, and a railroad goes underground -- 10. Millionaires' row : the river castles of J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and Frederic Church, and the floating palaces of Manhattan's West side -- 11. A forest to protect a commercial river : land surveyor Verplanck Colvin, photographer Seneca Ray Stoddard, and the New York Board of Trade campaign to safeguard the Hudson in the Adirondacks -- 12. An interstate park for the Palisades and the Highlands and a new progressive vision : Elizabeth Vermilye's Women's Clubs, Edward and Mary Harriman's Park, Mrs. Olmsted's Fresh Air camp, and Margaret Sage's charity -- 13. Over, under, across, and through : civil engineers triumph over nature, except in New York Harbor -- 14. Surviving the depression, connecting with nature : FDR's river of dignity, Robert Moses's Riverside Drive, and John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s parkway -- 15. The 1960s : Scenic Hudson, Riverkeeper, Clearwater, and the Nature Convervancy campaign to save a mountain and revive a "dead" river
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