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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... increasing industrialization , the subsistence - oriented sector declines and the market - oriented sector expands ( as indicated by the clockwise ar- row ) . bringer of life , fertility , famine , and death 6 Ecological Revolutions.
... increasing industrialization , the subsistence - oriented sector declines and the market - oriented sector expands ( as indicated by the clockwise ar- row ) . bringer of life , fertility , famine , and death 6 Ecological Revolutions.
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... fertility , famine , and death . The earth's interior was alive , active , and filled with small wombs , matrices , and caves within which the life on its surface germinated . Since the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century ...
... fertility , famine , and death . The earth's interior was alive , active , and filled with small wombs , matrices , and caves within which the life on its surface germinated . Since the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century ...
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... fertility , nurturance , con- traception , and abortion . Over human history , according to anthro- pologist Marvin Harris , cultures have used a wide variety of both ma- lign and benign methods to regulate population . Malign ...
... fertility , nurturance , con- traception , and abortion . Over human history , according to anthro- pologist Marvin Harris , cultures have used a wide variety of both ma- lign and benign methods to regulate population . Malign ...
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... fertile , but they are also less erosive and higher in phosphorus and potassium . They respond well when farm- ers add fertilizers such as lime ( calcium oxide , CaO ) , which raises the pH and adds calcium , nitrogen from legumes ...
... fertile , but they are also less erosive and higher in phosphorus and potassium . They respond well when farm- ers add fertilizers such as lime ( calcium oxide , CaO ) , which raises the pH and adds calcium , nitrogen from legumes ...
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... fertility through periodic additions of organic matter from flooding . ( Milo I. Harpstead and Francis D. Hole , Soil Science Simplified [ Ames : Iowa State University Press , 1980 ] , pp . 98-99 , 92-95 . ) Source : U.S. Department of ...
... fertility through periodic additions of organic matter from flooding . ( Milo I. Harpstead and Francis D. Hole , Soil Science Simplified [ Ames : Iowa State University Press , 1980 ] , pp . 98-99 , 92-95 . ) Source : U.S. Department of ...
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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