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

Cronon, William

 
9780809016341: Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0809016346 ISBN 13 : 9780809016341
Editeur : Hill and Wang, 2003

Synopsis

The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and 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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À propos de l'auteur

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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Éditeur
Hill and Wang
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0809016346
ISBN 13 
9780809016341
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
284
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Personne responsable
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