Canal Society
The best book I read this year was John Stilgoe’s 1982 book Common Landscape of America, 1580-1845. As I wrote in an earlier post, the book describes the evolution of the pre-industrial American landscape; Stilgoe defines landscape as “shaped land, land modified for permanent human occupation…a fragile equilibrium between natural and human force.” The b…
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