Shipwrecked Coastal Disasters and the Making of the American Beach / Jamin Wells.

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020]

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020

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"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 people visited it or called it home at the beginning of the nineteenth century. By the twentieth century, the American beach had become the summer encampment of presidents, a common destination for millions of citizens, and the site of rapidly growing beachfront communities. Shipwrecked tells the story of this epic transformation, arguing that coastal shipwrecks themselves changed how Americans viewed, used, and inhabited the shoreline"-- Provided by publisher.

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October 20, 2020

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