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

by William Cronon

ISBN13: 9780809016341
ISBN10: 0809016346
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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 ethno-ecological history at its best.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-251) and index.

About the Author

William Cronon is the Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin--Madison. His book Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West won the Bancroft Prize in 1992.

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ISBN:: 9780809016341
Foreword:: Demos, John
Afterword:: Cronon, William
Foreword by:: Demos, John
Foreword:: Demos, John
Author:: Demos, John
Author:: Cronon, William
Afterword by:: Cronon, William
Afterword:: Cronon, William
Publisher:: Hill & Wang
Location:: New York
Subject:: Nature
Subject:: History
Subject:: New england
Subject:: Native American
Subject:: United States - Colonial Period
Subject:: Human Geography
Subject:: Landscape changes
Subject:: United States / Colonial Period(1600-1775)
Subject:: United States - State & Local - New England
Subject:: United States / Colonial Period(1600-1775)
Subject:: New England History.
Subject:: Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Subject:: US History-Colonial America
Edition Number:: Revised Edition
Edition Description:: Revised and Rev
Series Volume:: no. 815
Publication Date:: 20030931
Binding:: TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:: General/trade
Language:: English
Illustrations:: Includes Notes, a Bibliography, and an I
Pages:: 288
Dimensions:: 8.21 x 5.79 x 0.87 in

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