Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0809016346
ISBN 13
9780809016341
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Publication Year
2003
Publisher
Pages
288
Description
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. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
2
