Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England

by Carolyn Merchant

Book Overview

By exploring the stages of ecological transformation that took place in New England as European settlers took control of the land, Carolyn Merchant develops a fresh approach to environmental history.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807842540
• ISBN13: 9780807842546
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 379 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Nature's Voice

Carolyn Merchant's book speaks of the relationships between human and non-human nature that have evolved over the last three centuries. The book is a sympathetic approach to non-human nature and also the reasoning(s) behind the causes of its abuse. A very interesting read that gives a clear picture as to the destructive role that capitalism.

Fundamental text

Ecological Revolutions is an absolutely fundamental text in the fields of Colonial and Environmental American history. This book, along with William Cronon's Changes in the Land, transformed historians' understandings of Native American relationships to the land, as well as the ecological, economic, and reproductive changes brought by European colonists. Changes in the Land is more entertaining to read, but Ecological Revolutions is more advanced methodologically. I recommend both books heartily.