Changes in the Land, Revised Edition: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
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Changes in the Land, Revised Edition: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
Author: William Cronon
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Copyright: 2003
Pages: 288
Cover Price: $ 15.00
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Much historical writing is far more concerned with the players than the stage: narratives of kings and cabbage-merchants, although acted out in fields and forests, typically include nature only as a convenient prop to provide the occasional splash of color. In Changes in the Land, Cronon treats the land of
New England with the same sensitivity and attention to detail as the lives of the American natives and the
colonists--he depicts the effects of changing land-use patterns on the texture of the New England landscape, and gives voice to the changing communities of trees, rock walls, and rivers. The chapter on the effects of changing notions of "property" on the ecology of New England are especially strong. Changes in the Land is almost the equal of Cronon's masterpiece, Nature's Metropolis, a monumental study of the ecological effects of Chicago on the entire central portion of the United States in the 1800s. Highly Recommended to specialists and general readers alike.
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New England is the name given to those states that lie north and east of New York State.