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Europeans Come to the Sound |
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The Coming of the English Settlers |
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The Spread of Settlements |
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Breakdown of the Old Order |
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The Spread into the Interior |
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The Coming of Overseas Trade |
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Revolution and War: 1775--1814 |
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The Sound Becomes a Theater of War |
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The Battle of Pell's Point |
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The Coming of the Railroad |
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Railroads and Resorts on the Sound: 1848--1900 |
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New Railroad Developments |
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History of the New Haven Railroad |
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The Era of Mansion Building |
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Agriculture, Fishing, Whaling, and Industry |
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Eli Whitney and the Birth of the ``American System'' |
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The Winchester and Mass Production |
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Yankee Notions and Hatting |
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The Dawn of Elegance: 1900--1919 |
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The First Horseless Carriage |
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The Coming of the Automobile: The Vanderbilt Cup Races |
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The Automobile and Suburbia |
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The Gold Coast of Long Island |
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Speculators, Developers, and Dreamers |
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Trolley Lines and the Railroads: The Case of the New Haven |
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The New Haven and Shipping on the Sound |
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The Great Gatsby and the Roaring Twenties |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald on Long Island |
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The Visit of the Prince of Wales |
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Lindbergh, Movie Greats, and the Merely Rich |
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The End of the Golden Age |
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The Real Estate Boom on Long Island |
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The Growth of Westchester |
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``What is a Home Without a Nearby Golf Course?'' |
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Parks and Parkways in Westchester |
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Long Island Lagging Behind |
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The Motor Age Invades Connecticut |
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The Bleak Years: 1930--1945 |
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Onset of the Great Depression |
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Economizing and Creating Work |
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The Problem of Exclusion and Isolation |
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Decline and End of Shipping on the Sound |
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Ferries on Long Island Sound |
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The Great Hurricane of 1938 |
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The World's Fair in Flushing Bay |
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Everyman's Sea: The Postwar Period |
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The New England Thruway--Connecticut Turnpike |
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Problems Created by Construction of the Thruway |
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The Long Island Expressway |
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Effect of the Expressways |
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Mass Housing and Urban Renewal |
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The Plight of the Long Island Rail Road |
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Long Island's New Business Centers |
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The Housing Revolution: The Building of Levittown |
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The Changing Scene at Roosevelt Field |
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The Crowding of Parks and Beaches |
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The Ecology of the Sound: Post--World War II through the Early 1970s |
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Early Antipollution Measures |
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The Bronx-Whitestone Bridge |
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Controversies About Other Bridges |
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The Problem of a Third Bridge |
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The Evolution of Public Protests |
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Second-Guessing the Future: A View from the 1970s |
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Recreation Versus Population Growth |
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An Exercise in Futuristics |
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Long Island Sound in the Twenty-first Century |
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Long Island in the Twenty-First Century |
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Recession and Rebound on Long Island |
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Restructuring the Connecticut Economy |
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The National Estuary Program |
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Notes |
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Bibliographic Note |
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New Bibliographic Note |
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Index |
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About the Author |
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