Changes in the Land, Revised Edition
Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
Farrar Straus & Giroux · Print & ebook · September 1, 2003
The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated.
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- Who it’s for
- A concise, readable study of how land, culture, and settlement changed New England.
- Genres
- Colonial America (to 1775), Ecology, New England History
- Published
- Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 2003
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The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England.
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Reissued here with an updated afterword by the author and a new preface by the distinguished colonialist John Demos, Changes in the Land, provides a brilliant inter-disciplinary interpretation of how land and people influence one another. With its chilling closing line, "The people of plenty were a people of waste," Cronon's enduring and thought-provoking book is ethno-ecological history at its best.
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A concise, readable study of how land, culture, and settlement changed New England.
Come here for
- ecology meets colonial history
- clear, classroom-friendly synthesis
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- academic framing without the fog
- works for course reading or focused browsing
Where it sits
| New England History | 43% |
|---|---|
| Colonial America (to 1775) | 42% |
| Ecology | 30% |
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Publisher categories
- Colonial America (to 1775)
- New England History
- Ecology
- Authors
- William Cronon, John Demos, John Putnam Demos
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Published
- September 1, 2003
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Colonial America (to 1775)