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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... Biological Control at the University of California at Berkeley . I am particularly grateful for discussions with and articles written by Miguel Altieri , Claudia Carr , Donald Dahlsten , Sally Fairfax , Richard Garcia , Ken- neth Hagen ...
... Biological Control at the University of California at Berkeley . I am particularly grateful for discussions with and articles written by Miguel Altieri , Claudia Carr , Donald Dahlsten , Sally Fairfax , Richard Garcia , Ken- neth Hagen ...
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... biological and social , is one step removed from immediate impact on nature : the effects of the biological reproduction of human beings are mediated through a par- ticular form of production ( hunting - gathering , subsistence agricul ...
... biological and social , is one step removed from immediate impact on nature : the effects of the biological reproduction of human beings are mediated through a par- ticular form of production ( hunting - gathering , subsistence agricul ...
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... biological and social articulations.17 Reproduction is the biological and social process through which humans are born , nurtured , socialized , and governed . Through re- production sexual relations are legitimated , population sizes ...
... biological and social articulations.17 Reproduction is the biological and social process through which humans are born , nurtured , socialized , and governed . Through re- production sexual relations are legitimated , population sizes ...
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... biological and social re- production in subsistence economies . Here production exists for the sake of reproduction ; the production and the exchange of human energy are keys to the reproduction of human life . Food must be extracted or ...
... biological and social re- production in subsistence economies . Here production exists for the sake of reproduction ; the production and the exchange of human energy are keys to the reproduction of human life . Food must be extracted or ...
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... biological reproduction of life itself is possible only through the necessary connections between inter- and intragenera- tional reproduction , the community itself is maintained by social re- production . In native American communities ...
... biological reproduction of life itself is possible only through the necessary connections between inter- and intragenera- tional reproduction , the community itself is maintained by social re- production . In native American communities ...
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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