Contested Currents
Rivers and the Remaking of New England
$138.51
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
27 October 2026
Summary
A compelling history of New England told through its rivers and the Native Americans and colonists who depended on them
In Contested Currents, Zachary M. Bennett presents a new perspective on the history of New England by following its many rivers: how they shaped, and were shaped by, the people who struggled to control the region. Bennett explores how these waterways sustained Algonquian peoples for eons, their central role in English colonization projects d…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781512830156 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1512830151 |
| Author: | Zachary M. Bennett |
| Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Imprint: | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 27 October 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Early American Studies |
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Critics Review
“Contested Currents offers a fresh look at how seemingly small decisions about rivers in early New England had major ramifications down the road as industrial capitalism gripped the region.”– “Ted Steinberg, author of Down to Earth: Nature’s Role in American History”
“New England can be known by the energy and pulse of its rivers. Zachary M. Bennett follows the region’s rivers through history and reveals the unpredictable ways that people have related to these powerful freshwater flows and to each other. Contested Currents persuasively shows how, time and again, rivers have generated complex debates and deep conflicts, many of which remain unresolved today.”– “Thomas M. Wickman, author of Snowshoe Country: An Environmental and Cultural History of Winter in the Early American Northeast”
Zachary M. Bennett
Zachary M. Bennett is Assistant Professor at Norwich University. He has previously published with New England Quarterly and Early American Studies.
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