Ecological Revolutions - Nature, Gender, and Science in New England (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

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. |With the arrival of European 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 lasted 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 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.

General

Imprint:	The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2010
First published:	November 2010
Authors:	Carolyn Merchant
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	424
Edition:	2nd Revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8078-7180-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of other lands Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > History of other lands Promotions
LSN:	0-8078-7180-X
Barcode:	9780807871805

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