Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New EnglandWith 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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... Boston and Providence , both of which carried out a slave trade with the sugar economy in Barbados . Slaves were used as household and field labor in the production and reproduction of daily life . By 1750 there were some 4,000 slaves ...
... Boston and Providence , both of which carried out a slave trade with the sugar economy in Barbados . Slaves were used as household and field labor in the production and reproduction of daily life . By 1750 there were some 4,000 slaves ...
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... Boston Manufacturing Company spread to waterfalls along the rivers of northern New England as textile manufacturing boomed , employing single women and whole families from New England farm homes . Toward the end of the century the New ...
... Boston Manufacturing Company spread to waterfalls along the rivers of northern New England as textile manufacturing boomed , employing single women and whole families from New England farm homes . Toward the end of the century the New ...
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... Boston Plymouth RHODE ISLAND 70 www wwww.x wwwww в 44 42 122 Lowlands Rolling Uplands Mountains Source : William F. Robinson , Abandoned New England : Its Hidden Ruins and Where to Find Them ( Boston : New York Graphic Society , 1976 ) ...
... Boston Plymouth RHODE ISLAND 70 www wwww.x wwwww в 44 42 122 Lowlands Rolling Uplands Mountains Source : William F. Robinson , Abandoned New England : Its Hidden Ruins and Where to Find Them ( Boston : New York Graphic Society , 1976 ) ...
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... Boston Plymouth 4 Machias R. , 0 50 miles Source : Samuel F. Manning . New England Masts and the King's Broad Arrow ( Kennebunk , Maine : Thomas Murphy , 1979 ) , p . 20 . cherries , birch , poplar , and willow would regenerate. Animals ...
... Boston Plymouth 4 Machias R. , 0 50 miles Source : Samuel F. Manning . New England Masts and the King's Broad Arrow ( Kennebunk , Maine : Thomas Murphy , 1979 ) , p . 20 . cherries , birch , poplar , and willow would regenerate. Animals ...
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Contents
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The Capitalist Ecological Revolution | 147 |
APPENDIXES | 281 |
Notes | 297 |
Bibliography | 337 |
Index | 377 |
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