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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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- The American coastal frontier
- Taming the beach: wreckers and wreck law on the Jersey shore
- Transforming the shore: tourism, lifesavers, and the rise of Quonnie
- Clearing the coast: Captain T.A. Scott, a "True American"
- Shipwreck and spectacle on the modern beach.