" scholarship, style and quality of argument should give it a place on the shelves of any investigator of the environment."- International Journal of Environmental Studies "Merchant has the gift of being able to make plain dirt interesting."- American Historical Review Merchant's work makes a significant contribution not only in enriching the field but also in stimulating further work."- The Journal of American History "A fresh approach to American environmental history. Merchant argues that past ways of relating to the land could become an inspiration for renewing resources and achieving sustainability in the future. In a preface to the second edition, Merchant introduces new ideas about narrating environmental change based on gender and the dialectics of transformation, while the revised epilogue situates New England in the context of twenty-first-century globalization and climate change. In Ecological Revolutions, Carolyn Merchant analyzes these two major transformations in the New England environment between 16. This colonial ecological revolution held sway until the nineteenth century, when New England's industrial production brought on a capitalist revolution that again remade the ecology, economy, and conceptions of nature in the region. With the arrival of European explorers and settlers during the seventeenth century, Native American ways of life and the environment itself underwent radical alterations as human relationships to the land and ways of thinking about nature all changed.
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