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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... fur trader symbolically surveys the effects of three centuries of transformation of the New England landscape ... trade . Colonial ecology was in turn transformed by the advent of internal transportation networks and an industrial ...
... fur trader symbolically surveys the effects of three centuries of transformation of the New England landscape ... trade . Colonial ecology was in turn transformed by the advent of internal transportation networks and an industrial ...
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... fur trade and the missionary efforts of Jesuits and Puritans , a society in which ani- mals , plants , and rocks were equal subjects changed to one domi- nated by transcendent vision in which individual human subjects were separate from ...
... fur trade and the missionary efforts of Jesuits and Puritans , a society in which ani- mals , plants , and rocks were equal subjects changed to one domi- nated by transcendent vision in which individual human subjects were separate from ...
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... furs by elites declined , to be replaced by the use of fur in a disguised , less obvious form - the beaver felt hat ... trade in the sixteenth and seven- teenth centuries . The distancing of humans from nature that had evolved over ...
... furs by elites declined , to be replaced by the use of fur in a disguised , less obvious form - the beaver felt hat ... trade in the sixteenth and seven- teenth centuries . The distancing of humans from nature that had evolved over ...
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