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Diana Muir's Reflections in Bullough's Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England (University Press of New England) untangles the complicated interrelation of natural history and technology in southern New England. Muir offers a profusion of scientific detail framed by the author's reflections on minute changes in the small millpond outside her window.

In tracing both the rise and fall of such diverse enterprises as shoemaking, cotton spinning, and papermaking and their environmental ...

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