Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy: Transforming Nature in Early New England

by Strother Roberts and Strother E. Roberts

Focusing on the Connecticut River Valley--New England's longest river and largest watershed-- Strother Roberts traces the local, regional, and transatlantic markets in colonial commodities that shaped an ecological transformation in one corner of the rapidly globalizing early modern world. Reaching deep into the interior, the Connecticut provided a watery commercial highway for the furs, grain, timber, livestock, and various other commodities that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081225127X
• ISBN13: 9780812251272
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"