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Main Title Changes in the land : Indians, colonists, and the ecology of New England /
Author Cronon, William,
Publisher Hill and Wang,
Year Published 1983
OCLC Number 09413569
ISBN 0809034050; 9780809034055; 0809001586; 9780809001583
Subjects Nature--Effect of human beings on--New England--History ; Landscape changes--New England--History ; New England--History--Colonial period, ca 1600-1775 ; Kolonisation ; èOkologie ; Neuengland ; Antropologia Cult Social ; Historia Dos Estados Unidos ; New England--History--Colonial Period, 1600-1775 ; Nature--Effets de l'homme--âEtats-Unis--Nouvelle-Angleterre (âEtats-Unis) ; Nouvelle-Angleterre (âEtats-Unis)--1600-1775 (Période coloniale) ; Man--Influence on nature--New England--History
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Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0667/83007899-b.html
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0667/83007899-d.html
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EJBM  GF504.N45C76 1983 Headquarters Library/Washington,DC 05/04/1990
Edition 1st ed.
Collation x, 241 pages ; 22 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-235) and index.
Contents Notes
Part I : Looking backward -- The view from Walden -- Part II : The ecological transformation of colonial New England -- Landscape and patchwork -- Seasons of want and plenty -- Bounding the land -- Commodities of the hunt -- Taking the forest -- A world of fields and fences -- Part III : Harvests of change -- That wilderness should turn a mart. An ecological history of colonial New England, looking at how the shift from Indian to European dominance affected the plant and animal communities of the region.