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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... European colonists practicing settled agriculture and overseas trade . Colonial ecology was in turn transformed by the advent of internal transportation networks and an industrial economy . Source : Horace T. Martin , Castorologia ...
... European colonists practicing settled agriculture and overseas trade . Colonial ecology was in turn transformed by the advent of internal transportation networks and an industrial economy . Source : Horace T. Martin , Castorologia ...
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... European settlers in the 1600s and 1700s who introduced fishing , fur trading , lumbering , and farming - a transformation I have called the colonial ecological revolution . In the 1800s , textile mills moved up coastal rivers and ...
... European settlers in the 1600s and 1700s who introduced fishing , fur trading , lumbering , and farming - a transformation I have called the colonial ecological revolution . In the 1800s , textile mills moved up coastal rivers and ...
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... European explorers , traders , and settlers , who brought diseases , guns , plants , and animals into the New World and established a strongly patriarchal society in the New England landscape ( Chapter 3 ) . Native women's horticulture ...
... European explorers , traders , and settlers , who brought diseases , guns , plants , and animals into the New World and established a strongly patriarchal society in the New England landscape ( Chapter 3 ) . Native women's horticulture ...
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... European development through social evolu- tion came to New England in a tenth of that time through revolution . This book delineates the characteristics of two types of ecological revolution - colonial and capitalist - through the ...
... European development through social evolu- tion came to New England in a tenth of that time through revolution . This book delineates the characteristics of two types of ecological revolution - colonial and capitalist - through the ...
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... European ecological complex of animals , plants , pathogens , and people . The colonial revolution extracted na- tive species from their ecological contexts and shipped them overseas as commodities . It was legitimated by a set of ...
... European ecological complex of animals , plants , pathogens , and people . The colonial revolution extracted na- tive species from their ecological contexts and shipped them overseas as commodities . It was legitimated by a set of ...
Contents
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The Capitalist Ecological Revolution | 147 |
APPENDIXES | 281 |
Notes | 297 |
Bibliography | 337 |
Index | 377 |
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Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England Carolyn Merchant Limited preview - 1989 |
Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England Carolyn Merchant Limited preview - 2010 |
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