Second nature : an environmental history of New England / Richard W. Judd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Judd, Richard William, author.

Series:

Environmental history of the Northeast.

Environmental History of the Northeast

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--New England--History.

Human ecology.

New England--History.

New England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bounded by the St. Lawrence Valley to the north, Lake Champlain to the west, and the Gulf of Maine to the east, New England may be the most cohesive region in the United States, with a long and richly recorded history. In this book, Richard W. Judd explores the mix of ecological process and human activity that shaped that history over the past 12,000 years.

Contents:

Introduction: People and the Land in New England.

Part I. The New World Transformed: New England to 1800.

1. New England's Natives.

2. Contact, Colonization, and War.

3. The Ecologies of Frontier Farming.

Part II. Reconstructing Nature in the Industrial Age, 1800 to 1900.

4. Industrializing the Margins; 5. Farm and Factory.

6. A Transcendental Place; Part III. Synthetic Technologies, Organic Needs: Conservation in New England, 1850 to 2000.

7. Science, Conservation, and the Commons.

8. Conserving Urban Ecologies

9. Saving Second Nature.

Notes.

Index.

About the Author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61376-238-0

9781625341013

OCLC:

896803276