| Author |
Cronon, William.
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| Publication |
New York : Hill and Wang, 2003.
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| Edition |
First revised edition, twentieth-anniversary edition. |
| Description |
xviii, 257 pages ; 21 cm |
| Call # |
304.20974 C |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-251) and index. |
| Contents |
Looking backward -- The view from Walden -- The ecological transformation of colonial New England -- Landscape and patchwork -- Seasons of want and plenty -- Bounding the land -- Commodities of the hunt -- Taking the forest -- A world of fields and fences -- Harvests of change -- That wilderness should turn a mart -- The book that almost wasn't. |
| Summary |
[This book offers an] interpretation of the changing circumstances in New England's plant and animal communities that occurred with the shift from Indian to European dominance. [In the book, the author] constructs [an] interdisciplinary analysis of how the land and the people influenced one another, and how that complex web of relationships shaped New England's communities.-Back cover. |
| Subject |
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- New England -- History.
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Landscape changes -- New England -- History.
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New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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| ISBN |
0809016346 (pb : alk. paper) : |
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9780809016341 (pb : alk. paper) |
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