Changes in the Land : : Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
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Looking backward -- The view from Walden -- 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 -- Harvests of change -- That wilderness should turn a mart -- The book that almost wasn't.
[This book offers an] interpretation of the changing circumstances in New England's plant and animal communities that occurred with the shift from Indian to European dominance. [In the book, the author] constructs [an] interdisciplinary analysis of how the land and the people influenced one another, and how that complex web of relationships shaped New England's communities.-Back cover.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Hill and Wang, 2003.
Year Published: 2003
Description: 257 p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0809016346
9780809016341
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Demos, John.
SUBJECTS
Nature -- History. -- New England
Landscape changes -- New England -- History.
New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.