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Author Cronon, William.

Title Changes in the land : Indians, colonists, and the ecology of New England / William Cronon ; [with a foreword by John Demos and an afterword by the author].

Publication Info. New York : Hill and Wang, 2003.
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Location Call No. Status
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  304.2 CRO    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  974.02 CRONON    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  304.2 CRONON    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  304.2 CRO    Check Shelf
Edition First revised edition, twentieth-anniversary edition.
Description xviii, 257 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-251) and index.
Contents Looking backward -- The view from Walden -- The ecological transformation of colonial New England -- Landscape and patchwork -- Seasons of want and plenty -- Bounding the land -- Commodities of the hunt -- Taking the forest -- A world of fields and fences -- Harvests of change -- That wilderness should turn a mart -- The book that almost wasn't.
Summary [This book offers an] interpretation of the changing circumstances in New England's plant and animal communities that occurred with the shift from Indian to European dominance. [In the book, the author] constructs [an] interdisciplinary analysis of how the land and the people influenced one another, and how that complex web of relationships shaped New England's communities.-Back cover.
Subject Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- New England -- History.
Landscape changes -- New England -- History.
New England -- History -- Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.
ISBN 0809016346 pb alkaline paper
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