Ecological revolutions : nature, gender, and science in New England / Carolyn Merchant ; with a new preface and epilogue by the author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Merchant, Carolyn.

Series:

H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.

H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--New England--History.

Human ecology.

Indians of North America--New England--Economic conditions.

Indians of North America.

Human ecology--Philosophy--History.

New England--Economic conditions.

New England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Summary:

With 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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface

1 Ecology and History

PART ONE: The Colonial Ecological Revolution

2 Animals into Resources

3 From Corn Mothers to Puritan Fathers

4 The Animate Cosmos of the Colonial Farmer

PART TWO: The Capitalist Ecological Revolution

5 Farm Ecology: Subsistence versus Market

6 The Mechanization of Nature: Managing Farms and Forests

7 Nature, Mother, and Industry

8 Epilogue: The Global Ecological Revolution

APPENDIXES

Appendix A: Foods of Southeastern New England Indians, 1600-1675

Appendix B: Pelts Exported by John Pynchon, 1652-1663

Appendix C: Profile of Fifteen Inland Massachusetts Towns

Appendix D: Land Use in Concord, Massachusetts

Appendix E: Products of the New England Forest, 1840

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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B

C

D

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G

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I

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-9313-462-9

979-88-908862-7-9

1-4696-0389-6

0-8078-9962-3

OCLC:

741492922