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Changes in the land : Indians, colonists, and the ecology of New England
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Changes in the land : Indians, colonists, and the ecology of New England

Author: William Cronon; John Demos
Publisher: New York : Hill and Wang, 2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st rev. ed., 20th-anniversary edView all editions and formats
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[This book offers an] interpretation of the changing circumstances in New England's plant and animal communities that occurred with the shift from Indian to European dominance. [In the book, the author] constructs [an] interdisciplinary analysis of how the land and the people influenced one another, and how that complex web of relationships shaped New England's communities.-Back cover.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: William Cronon; John Demos
ISBN: 0809016346 9780809016341
OCLC Number: 51886348
Description: xviii, 257 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: Looking backward --
The view from Walden --
The ecological transformation of colonial New England --
Landscape and patchwork --
Seasons of want and plenty --
Bounding the land --
Commodities of the hunt --
Taking the forest --
A world of fields and fences --
Harvests of change --
That wilderness should turn a mart --
The book that almost wasn't.
Responsibility: William Cronon ; [with a foreword by John Demos and an afterword by the author].
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[This book offers an] interpretation of the changing circumstances in New England's plant and animal communities that occurred with the shift from Indian to European dominance. [In the book, the author] constructs [an] interdisciplinary analysis of how the land and the people influenced one another, and how that complex web of relationships shaped New England's communities.-Back cover.

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