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 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…
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Weitere Autoren: Demos, John (Solist) / Cronon, William (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-0-8090-1634-1
- EAN: 9780809016341
- Produktnummer: 19443352
- Verlag: Hill & Wang
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.7 cm x D2.0 cm 249 g
- Auflage: Revised
- Gewicht: 249
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William Cronon; With a Foreword by John Demos and an Afterword by the author
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