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Shipwrecked : coastal disasters and the making of the American beach /

Reframing the American story from the vantage point of the nation's watery edges, Jamin Wells shows that disasters have not only bedeviled the American beach, they created it. Though the American beach is now one of the most commercialized, contested and engineered places on the planet, few peo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wells, Jamin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Shipwrecks > United States > History > 19th century.
Coasts > United States > History.
Beaches > United States > History.

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