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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... consciousness . Where do these revolutions stand from the perspective of the twenty- first century ? Twenty years after the initial publication of Ecologi- cal Revolutions ( 1989 ) , I have had an opportunity to reflect on this question ...
... consciousness . Where do these revolutions stand from the perspective of the twenty- first century ? Twenty years after the initial publication of Ecologi- cal Revolutions ( 1989 ) , I have had an opportunity to reflect on this question ...
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... consciousness gave way to the male God of Puritan religion . Settlers incorporated the native corn , beans , and squash triad into their own tetrad of wheat , barley , oats , and rye . Nev- ertheless , native peoples did not remain ...
... consciousness gave way to the male God of Puritan religion . Settlers incorporated the native corn , beans , and squash triad into their own tetrad of wheat , barley , oats , and rye . Nev- ertheless , native peoples did not remain ...
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... consciousness ... so also in the realm of practice they constitute a part of human life and human activity . Physically man lives only on these products of nature , whether they appear in the form of food xviii Preface to the Second ...
... consciousness ... so also in the realm of practice they constitute a part of human life and human activity . Physically man lives only on these products of nature , whether they appear in the form of food xviii Preface to the Second ...
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... consciousness , blacks such as poet Phillis Wheatley - from a Boston slave - owning family - helped to demonstrate that blacks were the equals of whites in intelligence and creativity , and whites such as Henry David Tho- reau used ...
... consciousness , blacks such as poet Phillis Wheatley - from a Boston slave - owning family - helped to demonstrate that blacks were the equals of whites in intelligence and creativity , and whites such as Henry David Tho- reau used ...
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... consciousness . The reproduction of human and nonhu- 11. Allis , " Slavery's True History " ; Medford Historical Society , “ The First African Immigrants " ; Wheatley , Poems on Various Subjects ; Merchant , “ Shades of Dark- ness ...
... consciousness . The reproduction of human and nonhu- 11. Allis , " Slavery's True History " ; Medford Historical Society , “ The First African Immigrants " ; Wheatley , Poems on Various Subjects ; Merchant , “ Shades of Dark- ness ...
Contents
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The Capitalist Ecological Revolution | 147 |
APPENDIXES | 281 |
Notes | 297 |
Bibliography | 337 |
Index | 377 |
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