Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
The book that launched environmental history now updated. Winner of the Francis Parkman PrizeIn this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the...
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The book that launched environmental history now updated. Winner of the Francis Parkman PrizeIn this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an updated afterword by the author and a new preface by the distinguished colonialist John Demos, Changes in the Land, provides a brilliant inter-disciplinary interpretation of how land and people influence one another. With its chilling closing line, "The people of plenty were a people of waste," Cronon's enduring and thought-provoking book is ethno-ecological history at its best.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780809016341 (0809016346)
Publish date: September 1st 2003
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
School,
Science,
Environment,
Nature,
Natural History,
Biology,
Ecology,
American History,
Anthropology
A core environmental history text that smashes myths about the pristine wilderness, the empty state of New England when the British colonists arrived, and the relationship between the natives and the colonists. Cronon shows that native American land and resource use was deliberate and organized, an...
Ecological differences between Native Americans of New England and the Colonists who invaded their land. A concise description of land use by both groups with primary source references.
This was required reading in an environmental history class. It was readable and enjoyable. This will supplement any Colonial history you already know about New England. It begins with a description of the New World land and its abundant animals before the Pilgrims came. Within a century the abun...
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