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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... cultural turn in environmen- tal history , " a position iterated by Richard White in an article with that subtitle , entitled " From Wilderness to Hybrid Landscapes . " In White's approach many stories or interpretations by many actors ...
... cultural turn in environmen- tal history , " a position iterated by Richard White in an article with that subtitle , entitled " From Wilderness to Hybrid Landscapes . " In White's approach many stories or interpretations by many actors ...
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... cultures of science and the humanities , and between disinterested objectiv- ity and the ethical obligation of ... cultural turn are an attention to discourse , story , and narrative that is missing in much earlier environmental history ...
... cultures of science and the humanities , and between disinterested objectiv- ity and the ethical obligation of ... cultural turn are an attention to discourse , story , and narrative that is missing in much earlier environmental history ...
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... Cultural Geography and Environmental History , " p . 167 . 7. Melosi , " Equity , Eco - Racism , and Environmental History " ; Glave and Stoll , To Love the Wind and the Rain ; Merchant , " Shades of Darkness " ; Daniel B. Botkin ...
... Cultural Geography and Environmental History , " p . 167 . 7. Melosi , " Equity , Eco - Racism , and Environmental History " ; Glave and Stoll , To Love the Wind and the Rain ; Merchant , " Shades of Darkness " ; Daniel B. Botkin ...
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... cultures - native American and Eur- american - occupied the same geographic space in close succession with differing effects on the environment . I use feminist insights to analyze reproduction and show how it interacts with production ...
... cultures - native American and Eur- american - occupied the same geographic space in close succession with differing effects on the environment . I use feminist insights to analyze reproduction and show how it interacts with production ...
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... culture has adapted to the local ecology , they may not successfully explain change over time . A dy- namic rather than a static systems approach can better describe a continually evolving society and a changing environment . In ...
... culture has adapted to the local ecology , they may not successfully explain change over time . A dy- namic rather than a static systems approach can better describe a continually evolving society and a changing environment . In ...
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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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