Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

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Author: Cronon, William

Brand: Hill and Wang

Edition: Revised

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 288

Release Date: 01-09-2003

Part Number: bibliographical references , index

Details: The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated.

Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize

In 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.

EAN: 9780809016341

Package Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches

Languages: English

Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

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Description

Author: Cronon, William

Brand: Hill and Wang

Edition: Revised

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 288

Release Date: 01-09-2003

Part Number: bibliographical references , index

Details: The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated.

Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize

In 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.

EAN: 9780809016341

Package Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches

Languages: English

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