Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New EnglandUniv of North Carolina Press, 2010 - 394 Seiten 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. Thi |
Inhalt
1 Ecology and History | 1 |
The Colonial Ecological Revolution | 27 |
The Capitalist Ecological Revolution | 147 |
APPENDIXES | 281 |
Notes | 297 |
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Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England Carolyn Merchant Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1989 |
Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England Carolyn Merchant Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2010 |
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