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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... plows , and computers ) as real , existing , material things embedded in ecological relationships . As Karl Marx put it , “ Nature is man's inorganic body . ” Related to this position is the idea of nature as an actor in environmental ...
... plows , and computers ) as real , existing , material things embedded in ecological relationships . As Karl Marx put it , “ Nature is man's inorganic body . ” Related to this position is the idea of nature as an actor in environmental ...
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... plow agriculture , and corn mother consciousness gave way to the male God of Puritan religion . Settlers incorporated the native corn , beans , and squash triad into their own tetrad of wheat , barley , oats , and rye . Nev- ertheless ...
... plow agriculture , and corn mother consciousness gave way to the male God of Puritan religion . Settlers incorporated the native corn , beans , and squash triad into their own tetrad of wheat , barley , oats , and rye . Nev- ertheless ...
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... plows and barns produced from its resources are real , material entities interacting according to the laws of ecology . As Marx put it : " Just as plants , animals , stones , air , light , etc. constitute theoretically a part of human ...
... plows and barns produced from its resources are real , material entities interacting according to the laws of ecology . As Marx put it : " Just as plants , animals , stones , air , light , etc. constitute theoretically a part of human ...
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... plows , fences , clocks , and chemicals- were imposed on nature . The relations between men and women through which daily life was maintained and reproduced were radi- cally changed . And in turn the forms of consciousness perceiving ...
... plows , fences , clocks , and chemicals- were imposed on nature . The relations between men and women through which daily life was maintained and reproduced were radi- cally changed . And in turn the forms of consciousness perceiving ...
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... plowing . The brown podzolic soils ( recently redesignated alfisols and spodosols ) of the less acidic , more favored farming lands of southern New England are yellowish - brown and contain more clay . In the sandy loams of the ...
... plowing . The brown podzolic soils ( recently redesignated alfisols and spodosols ) of the less acidic , more favored farming lands of southern New England are yellowish - brown and contain more clay . In the sandy loams of the ...
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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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