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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... Massachusetts Towns 285 Appendix D Land Use in Concord , Massachusetts 292 Appendix E Products of the New England Forest , 1840 296 Notes 297 Bibliography 337 Index 377 Figures , Tables , and Maps Figures Frontispiece ii & viii Contents.
... Massachusetts Towns 285 Appendix D Land Use in Concord , Massachusetts 292 Appendix E Products of the New England Forest , 1840 296 Notes 297 Bibliography 337 Index 377 Figures , Tables , and Maps Figures Frontispiece ii & viii Contents.
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... Massachusetts , 1700 158 5.3 An Early Settler Clears a Homestead , Petersham , Massachusetts , 1740 159 5.4 Height of Cultivation for Farm Crops , Petersham , Massachusetts , 1830 195 5.5 Farm Abandonment , Petersham , Massachusetts , 1850 ...
... Massachusetts , 1700 158 5.3 An Early Settler Clears a Homestead , Petersham , Massachusetts , 1740 159 5.4 Height of Cultivation for Farm Crops , Petersham , Massachusetts , 1830 195 5.5 Farm Abandonment , Petersham , Massachusetts , 1850 ...
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... Massachusetts , 1850 6.1 Estimated Percentage of Forest Area in Each New England State , 1620-1865 225 7.1 Woman Drawing in Warp Ends 238 7.2 Steam Locomotive Arriving at Walden 243 Tables 1.1 Ecological Revolutions 24 2.1 Indian ...
... Massachusetts , 1850 6.1 Estimated Percentage of Forest Area in Each New England State , 1620-1865 225 7.1 Woman Drawing in Warp Ends 238 7.2 Steam Locomotive Arriving at Walden 243 Tables 1.1 Ecological Revolutions 24 2.1 Indian ...
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Nature, Gender, and Science in New England Carolyn Merchant. 5.2 Fifteen Inland Massachusetts Towns , 1771 152 5.3 Canals of Nineteenth - Century New England 194 This page intentionally left blank Preface to the Second Edition Figures , ...
Nature, Gender, and Science in New England Carolyn Merchant. 5.2 Fifteen Inland Massachusetts Towns , 1771 152 5.3 Canals of Nineteenth - Century New England 194 This page intentionally left blank Preface to the Second Edition Figures , ...
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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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