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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... fishing , and horticulture were transformed by European colonists practicing settled agriculture and overseas trade . Colonial ecology was in turn transformed by the advent of internal transportation networks and an industrial economy ...
... fishing , and horticulture were transformed by European colonists practicing settled agriculture and overseas trade . Colonial ecology was in turn transformed by the advent of internal transportation networks and an industrial economy ...
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... fishes and creatures of bizarre shape and habit , of tides rising and falling on their appointed schedule , of ... Fish and Wildlife Service , “ Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge . " Since Ecological Revolutions first appeared ...
... fishes and creatures of bizarre shape and habit , of tides rising and falling on their appointed schedule , of ... Fish and Wildlife Service , “ Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge . " Since Ecological Revolutions first appeared ...
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... fish runs . The new industrial system of production stimulated a reaction in the spheres of reproduction and conservation consciousness . The reproduction of human and nonhu- 11. Allis , " Slavery's True History " ; Medford Historical ...
... fish runs . The new industrial system of production stimulated a reaction in the spheres of reproduction and conservation consciousness . The reproduction of human and nonhu- 11. Allis , " Slavery's True History " ; Medford Historical ...
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... fishing and the use of chickens , geese , goats , and pigs for household subsistence . I am likewise grateful to Frank Siebert who discussed the history of the Penobscot Nation with me , to Frank Patoine who showed me techniques of fur ...
... fishing and the use of chickens , geese , goats , and pigs for household subsistence . I am likewise grateful to Frank Siebert who discussed the history of the Penobscot Nation with me , to Frank Patoine who showed me techniques of fur ...
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... fishing ( such as those of the northern New England Indians ) , the return from the land is instant food that can be converted to human energy in order to reproduce daily life . The energy accumulated by the body during the past few ...
... fishing ( such as those of the northern New England Indians ) , the return from the land is instant food that can be converted to human energy in order to reproduce daily life . The energy accumulated by the body during the past few ...
Contents
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The Capitalist Ecological Revolution | 147 |
APPENDIXES | 281 |
Notes | 297 |
Bibliography | 337 |
Index | 377 |
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