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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... Massachusetts Towns 285 Appendix D Land Use in Concord , Massachusetts 292 Appendix E Products of the New England Forest , 1840 296 Notes 297 Bibliography 337 Index 377 Figures , Tables , and Maps Figures Frontispiece ii & viii Contents.
... Massachusetts Towns 285 Appendix D Land Use in Concord , Massachusetts 292 Appendix E Products of the New England Forest , 1840 296 Notes 297 Bibliography 337 Index 377 Figures , Tables , and Maps Figures Frontispiece ii & viii Contents.
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... Land : Indians , Colonists , and the Ecology of New England . Although my manuscript was completed before his book was published , the appearance of Changes in the Land has pushed me to expand and differentiate my approach from his . He ...
... Land : Indians , Colonists , and the Ecology of New England . Although my manuscript was completed before his book was published , the appearance of Changes in the Land has pushed me to expand and differentiate my approach from his . He ...
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... land and life took place . The first , a colonial ecological revolution , occurred during the seventeenth century and was externally gener- ated . It resulted in the collapse of indigenous Indian ecologies and the incorporation of a ...
... land and life took place . The first , a colonial ecological revolution , occurred during the seventeenth century and was externally gener- ated . It resulted in the collapse of indigenous Indian ecologies and the incorporation of a ...
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... land is instant food that can be converted to human energy in order to reproduce daily life . The energy accumulated by the body during the past few hours is converted into energy during the next few hours . Some of that energy is spent ...
... land is instant food that can be converted to human energy in order to reproduce daily life . The energy accumulated by the body during the past few hours is converted into energy during the next few hours . Some of that energy is spent ...
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... land to feed people . Intensification in agricultural production is made possible through advances in science and technology.26 Production and reproduction interact dialectically . When reproduc- tive patterns are altered , as in ...
... land to feed people . Intensification in agricultural production is made possible through advances in science and technology.26 Production and reproduction interact dialectically . When reproduc- tive patterns are altered , as 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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