Shipwrecked
Coastal Disasters and the Making of the American Beach
By Jamin Wells
258 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 2 drawings, 11 halftones, 3 maps
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-6090-5
Published: December 2020 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-6089-9
Published: December 2020 -
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4696-6091-2
Published: October 2020
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Drawing on a broad range of archival material--including logbooks, court cases, personal papers, government records, and cultural ephemera--Wells examines how shipwrecks laid the groundwork for the beach tourism industry that would transform the American beach from coastal frontier to oceanfront playspace, spur substantial state and private investment alongshore, reshape popular ideas about the coast, and turn the beach into a touchstone of the American experience.
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Jamin Wells is assistant professor of history at the University of West Florida.
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"Crisply written, richly interpretive, and comprehensively researched. This is a first-rate environmental history."--Christopher L. Pastore, University at Albany, State University of New York
"By layering the cultural with the regulatory, the environmental, the spectacular, and the commercial, this important book adds to our understanding of the unique cultural and physical forces humans encountered and created on the American shoreline."--Matthew McKenzie, University of Connecticut