Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New EnglandUniv of North Carolina Press, 08.11.2010 - 424 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. 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. |
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... animals into the New World and established a strongly patriarchal society in the New England landscape ( Chapter 3 ) . Native women's horticulture succumbed to male - dominated plow agriculture , and corn mother consciousness gave way ...
... animals into the New World and established a strongly patriarchal society in the New England landscape ( Chapter 3 ) . Native women's horticulture succumbed to male - dominated plow agriculture , and corn mother consciousness gave way ...
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... animal species are extirpated and sup- planted by others of foreign origin ... with new and reluctant growth of vegeta- ble forms , and with alien tribes of animals . These intentional changes and substitutions constitute indeed great ...
... animal species are extirpated and sup- planted by others of foreign origin ... with new and reluctant growth of vegeta- ble forms , and with alien tribes of animals . These intentional changes and substitutions constitute indeed great ...
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... animals , plants , pathogens , and people . The colonial revolution extracted na- tive species from their ecological contexts and shipped them overseas as commodities . It was legitimated by a set of symbols that placed cultured ...
... animals , plants , pathogens , and people . The colonial revolution extracted na- tive species from their ecological contexts and shipped them overseas as commodities . It was legitimated by a set of symbols that placed cultured ...
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... Animals ( Consumers ) Myth Plants ( Producers ) Bacteria , Fungi ( Decomposers ) Art Ecological Core Minerals Biogeochemical Cycles Exogenous Additions and Withdrawals Energy exchanges Ethics Domestic Economy Human Political Economy ...
... Animals ( Consumers ) Myth Plants ( Producers ) Bacteria , Fungi ( Decomposers ) Art Ecological Core Minerals Biogeochemical Cycles Exogenous Additions and Withdrawals Energy exchanges Ethics Domestic Economy Human Political Economy ...
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... Merchant , “ The Theoretical Structure of Ecological Revolu- tions , " Environmental Review 11 , no . 4 ( Winter 1987 ) : 268 , reprinted by per- mission . ( producers ) , transferred to animals ( consumers ) Ecology and History 7.
... Merchant , “ The Theoretical Structure of Ecological Revolu- tions , " Environmental Review 11 , no . 4 ( Winter 1987 ) : 268 , reprinted by per- mission . ( producers ) , transferred to animals ( consumers ) Ecology and History 7.
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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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