Ecological Revolutions : Nature, Gender, and Science in New England /

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"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 s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Merchant, Carolyn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Edición:2nd ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Indians of North America > Economic conditions.
Human ecology > Philosophy.
Human ecology.
Economic history.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
Écologie humaine > Philosophie > Histoire.
Indiens d'Amerique > Nouvelle-Angleterre > Conditions economiques.
Human ecology > Philosophy > History.
Indians of North America > New England > Economic conditions.
Human ecology > New England > History.
New England.
Nouvelle-Angleterre > Conditions economiques.
New England > Economic conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ecology and history
  • pt. 1. The colonial ecological revolution. Animals into resources
  • From corn mothers to Puritan fathers
  • The animate cosmos of the colonial farmer
  • pt. 2. The capitalist ecological revolution. Farm ecology : subsistence versus market
  • The mechanization of nature : managing farms and forests
  • Nature, mother, and industry
  • Epilogue : the global ecological revolution
  • Appendixes. Foods of southeastern New England Indians, 1600-1675
  • Pelts exported by John Pyncheon, 1652-1663
  • Profile of fifteen inland Massachusetts towns
  • Land use in Concord, Massachusetts
  • Products of the New England forest, 1840.

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