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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... Ecology and History 1 PART ONE The Colonial Ecological Revolution 2 Animals into Resources 29 3 From Corn Mothers to Puritan Fathers 69 4 The Animate Cosmos of the Colonial Farmer 112 PART TWO The Capitalist Ecological Revolution 5 Farm ...
... Ecology and History 1 PART ONE The Colonial Ecological Revolution 2 Animals into Resources 29 3 From Corn Mothers to Puritan Fathers 69 4 The Animate Cosmos of the Colonial Farmer 112 PART TWO The Capitalist Ecological Revolution 5 Farm ...
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... Ecological Revolution 275 Maps 2.1 Major Soil Groups in New England 32 2.2 New England Topography 34 2.3 Forest Types at the Beginning of New England Settlement 35 2.4 Indian Tribes of New England , 1610 45 3.1 Colonial New England , ca ...
... Ecological Revolution 275 Maps 2.1 Major Soil Groups in New England 32 2.2 New England Topography 34 2.3 Forest Types at the Beginning of New England Settlement 35 2.4 Indian Tribes of New England , 1610 45 3.1 Colonial New England , ca ...
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... colonial ecological revolution . In the 1800s , textile mills moved up coastal rivers and rushing streams along the New England coast where waterpower initiated an industrial transformation — part of what I have called the capitalist ...
... colonial ecological revolution . In the 1800s , textile mills moved up coastal rivers and rushing streams along the New England coast where waterpower initiated an industrial transformation — part of what I have called the capitalist ...
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... ecology , which in turn alters further uses and perceptions of that very nature . In reading Ecological Revo- lutions , we can keep the following dialectical narrative in mind . The colonial ecological revolution ( Part 1 ) , for ...
... ecology , which in turn alters further uses and perceptions of that very nature . In reading Ecological Revo- lutions , we can keep the following dialectical narrative in mind . The colonial ecological revolution ( Part 1 ) , for ...
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... ecological revolution that further transformed New England land and life ( Part 2 ) . In the early eighteenth century , market ... colonial and capitalist ecological revolutions in terms of gendered dialectics opens them up as continuing ...
... ecological revolution that further transformed New England land and life ( Part 2 ) . In the early eighteenth century , market ... colonial and capitalist ecological revolutions in terms of gendered dialectics opens them up as continuing ...
Contents
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The Capitalist Ecological Revolution | 147 |
APPENDIXES | 281 |
Notes | 297 |
Bibliography | 337 |
Index | 377 |
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