Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England
by Merchant, Carolyn
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 080787180X
- ISBN 13
- 9780807871805
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Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. reprint. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 379 pages, with illustrations. Slight corner and edge wear and foxing on top edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. By exploring the stages of ecological transformation that took place in New England as European settlers took control of the land, Carolyn Merchant develops a fresh approach to environmental history. Her analysis of how human communities are related to their environment opens a perspective that goes beyond overt changes in the landscape.Merchant brings to light the dense network of links between the human realm of economic regimes, social structure, and gender relations, as they are conditioned by a dominant worldview, and the ecological realm of plant and animal life. Thus we see how the integration of the Indians with their natural world was shattered by Europeans who engaged in exhaustive methods of hunting, trapping, and logging for the market and in widespread subsistence farming. The resulting "colonial ecological revolution" was to hold sway until roughly the time of American independence, when the onset of industrialization and increasing urbanization brought about the "capitalist ecological revolution." Record # 385130
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- Title
- Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England
- Author
- Merchant, Carolyn
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 080787180X
- ISBN 13
- 9780807871805
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- History, NewEngland, , .
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- History;
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