| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 394 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series
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H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
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| Note |
"With a new preface and epilogue by the author." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-376) and index. |
| 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. |
| Contents |
Ecology and history -- pt. 1. The colonial ecological revolution. Animals into resources -- From corn mothers to Puritan fathers -- The animate cosmos of the colonial farmer -- pt. 2. The capitalist ecological revolution. Farm ecology : subsistence versus market -- The mechanization of nature : managing farms and forests -- Nature, mother, and industry -- Epilogue : the global ecological revolution -- Appendixes. Foods of southeastern New England Indians, 1600-1675 -- Pelts exported by John Pyncheon, 1652-1663 -- Profile of fifteen inland Massachusetts towns -- Land use in Concord, Massachusetts -- Products of the New England forest, 1840. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human ecology -- New England -- History.
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Human ecology. |
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New England. |
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History. |
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New England -- Economic conditions.
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Economic conditions. |
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Indians of North America -- New England -- Economic conditions.
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Indians of North America. |
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Human ecology -- Philosophy -- History.
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Human ecology -- Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Merchant, Carolyn. Ecological revolutions. 2nd ed. Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010 080787180X (OCoLC)637520062 |
| ISBN |
9780807899625 (electronic book) |
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0807899623 (electronic book) |
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9781469603896 (electronic book) |
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1469603896 (electronic book) |
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080787180X |
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9780807871805 |
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