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

Description: Changes in the Land : Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, Paperback by Cronon, William, ISBN 0809016346, ISBN-13 9780809016341, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Th 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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Book Title: Changes in the Land, Revised Edition : Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

Item Length: 8.2in

Item Height: 0.8in

Item Width: 5.5in

Author: William Cronon

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Topic: United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, ME, NH, Ri, VT), Ecology

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Publication Year: 2003

Genre: Nature, History

Item Weight: 9.5 Oz

Number of Pages: 288 Pages