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History/ES 247 Reading Guide

Reading Guide and Electronic Reserve Reading Links

Week 1
- Introduction: Thinking Historically, Thinking Environmentally
- Overview: The Land of Norumbega
Week 2
- Environmental History
- Community History
Week 3
- The First Traveler’s Tale: Christopher Levett’s Voyage
- Library Tour: meet at Bookhenge on the first floor of H-L Library
Week 4
- The Coast: The Earliest Settlements
- The Ecological Impact of the Contact of Cultures
Week 5
- The Encounter in Maine and Northern New England
- Maine in the Early Republic: The Northeastern Frontier
Week 6
- The Kennebec Proprietors and the Backcountry Squatters
- Hallowell and Augusta: The Maine Frontier in the Early Republic
Week 7
- The Second Traveler's Tale: Landscapes and Settlements in the District of Maine
- Radical Religion and Utopian Aspirations in Maine, 1783-1920
Week 8
- Rural Life in Nineteenth-Century Maine
- The Maine Woods
Week 9
- The Third Traveler’s Tale: The Maine Woods
- Farming on the Maine Coast
Week 10
- Deep-Sea Fisheries and Lobster Fishing
- Coastal and Island Economies
Week 11
- African-American Communities in Maine
- Immigration and Industrialization: The French-Canadian Migration to Madawaska and the Mill Community in Lewiston
Week 12
- Tourism and Anti-Modernism: The Search for Olde New England
- Tourism, The “Wilderness,” and Wilderness Preservation
Week 13
- Formal Work-in-Progress Reports
Week 14
- Conservation and Public Policy
- Conclusion