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Author Merchant, Carolyn, author.

Title Ecological revolutions : nature, gender, and science in New England / Carolyn Merchant.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2010].
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Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  304.209 M554E    Check Shelf
Edition Second edition / with a new preface and epilogue by the author.
Description xxv, 394 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series
H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-376) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary "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."--Page 4 of cover.
Subject New England. (OCoLC)fst01241913
Human ecology. (OCoLC)fst00962941
Indexed Term Human ecology--New England--History.
Subject (DE-601)104584793 (DE-588)4075306-2 Neuengland
Indexed Term Human ecology--Philosophy--History.
Subject (DE-601)104610093 (DE-588)4026152-9 Humanökologie
Indians of North America -- Economic conditions. (OCoLC)fst00969709
New England -- Economic conditions.
Indexed Term Neuengland
Subject Human ecology -- Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst00962959
Indexed Term Geschichte
Indians of North America--New England--Economic conditions.
New England--Economic conditions.
Subject (DE-601)104288922 (DE-588)4026718-0 Indianer
Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
Indians of North America -- New England -- Economic conditions.
Human ecology -- Philosophy -- History.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Indexed Term Humanökologie
Subject Human ecology -- New England -- History.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- New England -- Economic conditions.
Subject (DE-601)106091999 (DE-588)4073624-6 Kolonialismus
ISBN 9780807871805
080787180X
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