Ecological revolutions :: nature, gender, and science in New England /

"With the arrival of European explorers and settlers during the seventeenth century, Native American ways of life and the environment itself underwent radical alterations as human relationships to the land and ways of thinking about nature all changed. This colonial ecological revolution held s...

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Main Author: Merchant, Carolyn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:"With the arrival of European explorers and settlers during the seventeenth century, Native American ways of life and the environment itself underwent radical alterations as human relationships to the land and ways of thinking about nature all changed. This colonial ecological revolution held sway until the nineteenth century, when New England's industrial production brought on a capitalist revolution that again remade the ecology, economy, and conceptions of nature in the region. In Ecological Revolutions, Carolyn Merchant analyzes these two major transformations in the New England environment between 1600 and 1860. In a preface to the second edition, Merchant introduces new ideas about narrating environmental change based on gender and the dialectics of transformation, while the revised epilogue situates New England in the context of twenty-first-century globalization and climate change. Merchant argues that past ways of relating to the land could become an inspiration for renewing resources and achieving sustainability in the future."--Page 4 of cover
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxv, 394 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-376) and index.
ISBN:9780807899625
0807899623
9781469603896
1469603896

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