Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England Nature, Gender, and Science in New England
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
Dezember 1989
Verlag
Univ Of North Carolina PrSeitenzahl
379
Maße (L/B/H)
23/15.3/2.8 cm
Gewicht
640 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-8078-4254-6
Merchant brings to light the dense network of links between the human realm of economic regimes, social structure, and gender relations, as they are conditioned by a dominant worldview, and the ecological realm of plant and animal life. Thus we see how the integration of the Indians with their natural world was shattered by Europeans who engaged in exhaustive methods of hunting, trapping, and logging for the market and in widespread subsistence farming. The resulting "colonial ecological revolution" was to hold sway until roughly the time of American independence, when the onset of industrialization and increasing urbanization brought about the "capitalist ecological revolution." By the late nineteenth century, Merchant argues, New England had become a society that viewed the whole ecosphere as an arena for human domination. One can see in New England a "mirror of the world," she says. What took place there between 1600 and 1850 was a greatly accelerated recapitulation of the evolutionary ecological changes that had occurred in Europe over a span of 2,500 years.
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