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New Face on the Countryside Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in South Atlantic Forests, 1500-1800

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ISBN-10: 0521387396

ISBN-13: 9780521387392

Edition: 1990

Authors: Timothy H. Silver, Alfred W. Crosby, Donald Worster

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In this book, Timothy Silver traces the effects of English settlement on South Atlantic ecology, showing how all three cultures--Indian, European, and African--interacted with and were, in turn, affected by, their changing environment. In assessing such ecological changes, Silver pays particular attention to regional variations, explaining how local geography and settlement patterns influenced the environment. And while his focus is the English South, Silver also shows us how economic and ecological developments in Europe, the Caribbean, and elsewhere frequently dictated how South Atlantic colonists used their land. Consequently, his book provides an engaging and detailed look at the…    
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Book details

List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/30/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Timothy Silver is professor of history at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. His previous publications include A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in South Atlantic Forests, 1500-1800.

List of figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Prologue: images and boundaries
Perspectives on the land
Perspectives on the people, 1500
Europeans going thither
An accessible desert
The price of civility
Conclusion: perspectives on the land and people, 1800
Index