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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... Rhode Island . Pe- quot and Narragansett Indians were also enslaved , and some were sent to sugar plantations in the Caribbean . New Englanders , espe- cially Quakers , however , were at the forefront of abolition and led the movement ...
... Rhode Island . Pe- quot and Narragansett Indians were also enslaved , and some were sent to sugar plantations in the Caribbean . New Englanders , espe- cially Quakers , however , were at the forefront of abolition and led the movement ...
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... Rhode Island ; and the addition of Francis Cabot Lowell and Paul Moody's water - powered loom in 1815 made textile manufactur- ing under a single roof possible . The Waltham system developed by the Boston Manufacturing Company spread to ...
... Rhode Island ; and the addition of Francis Cabot Lowell and Paul Moody's water - powered loom in 1815 made textile manufactur- ing under a single roof possible . The Waltham system developed by the Boston Manufacturing Company spread to ...
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... RHODE ISLAND MAINE Podzol Zone ( Spodosols ) Brown Podzolic Zone ( Alfisols and Spodosols ) Podzols ( now known as spodosols ) are acid soils found in coniferous regions . They yield pine timber , but base - needing agricultural crops ...
... RHODE ISLAND MAINE Podzol Zone ( Spodosols ) Brown Podzolic Zone ( Alfisols and Spodosols ) Podzols ( now known as spodosols ) are acid soils found in coniferous regions . They yield pine timber , but base - needing agricultural crops ...
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... Rhode Island ) grew in the drier areas of the southern zone , while in wetter places basswood , ash , maple , and birch alerted Indians and settlers to the mull soils that would yield good crops . On the sandy coastal soils of Cape Cod , ...
... Rhode Island ) grew in the drier areas of the southern zone , while in wetter places basswood , ash , maple , and birch alerted Indians and settlers to the mull soils that would yield good crops . On the sandy coastal soils of Cape Cod , ...
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... 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 ) , p . 2 . Map ...
... 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 ) , p . 2 . Map ...
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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