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

Name: Changes in the Land, Revised Edition Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780809016341

ISBN-10: 0809016346

ISBN-13: 9780809016341

Edition: 20th 2003 (Revised)

Authors: William Cronon, John Demos

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Semester Rental: $19.09 Due date: 8/13/2024

Rental notice: supplementary materials (access codes, CDs, etc.) are not guaranteed with rental orders.

Buy used: $7.04

Buy new: $14.21

Marketplace

3 new & used from $4.65

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

The book that launched environmental history now 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…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Edition: 20th
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 9/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.45" wide x 8.20" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

John Demosis Samuel Knight Professor of History at Yale University and the foremost scholar of early American witchcraft. He is the author of Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New Englandand The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America.



Foreword



Preface



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


Afterword: The Book That Almost Wasn't


Notes


Bibliographical Essay


Index