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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... female and subservient to a transcendent male God for the Indians ' animistic fabric of symbolic exchanges between people and nature . The second transformation , a capitalist ecological revolution , took place roughly between the ...
... female and subservient to a transcendent male God for the Indians ' animistic fabric of symbolic exchanges between people and nature . The second transformation , a capitalist ecological revolution , took place roughly between the ...
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... female principles ; the hermaphrodite was the androgynous unity of the op- posites , the alchemic marriage of the masculine sun and feminine moon . Giordano Bruno ( 1548–1600 ) viewed change as a movement between contraries : everything ...
... female principles ; the hermaphrodite was the androgynous unity of the op- posites , the alchemic marriage of the masculine sun and feminine moon . Giordano Bruno ( 1548–1600 ) viewed change as a movement between contraries : everything ...
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... female infants , assaults against pregnant women , clitoridectomies , neglect of preadolescent girls , and abor- tion . Benign methods encompass homosexuality , coitus interruptus , incest taboos , delayed marriage , postpartum sexual ...
... female infants , assaults against pregnant women , clitoridectomies , neglect of preadolescent girls , and abor- tion . Benign methods encompass homosexuality , coitus interruptus , incest taboos , delayed marriage , postpartum sexual ...
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... Female production spaces Industrial Society Nature as passive female : teacher of mechanical laws , moral model Scientific objects , natural resources Cartesian grid system to map land and planet Intensive market agriculture , exchange ...
... Female production spaces Industrial Society Nature as passive female : teacher of mechanical laws , moral model Scientific objects , natural resources Cartesian grid system to map land and planet Intensive market agriculture , exchange ...
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... female and mother ; emotive , romantic Hamiltonian , market politics Forms of Consciousness Symbols of Nature Knowledge Mimetic consciousness : imitation , equality of all senses Animism , reciprocity between humans and nature Monistic ...
... female and mother ; emotive , romantic Hamiltonian , market politics Forms of Consciousness Symbols of Nature Knowledge Mimetic consciousness : imitation , equality of all senses Animism , reciprocity between humans and nature Monistic ...
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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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