Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface -- 1 Ecology and History -- PART ONE: The Colonial Ecological Revolution -- 2 Animals into Resources -- 3 From Corn Mothers to Puritan Fathers -- 4 The Animate Cosmos of the Colonial Farmer -- PART TWO: The Capitalist Ecological Revolution -- 5 Farm Ecology: Subsistence versus Market -- 6 The Mechanization of Nature: Managing Farms and Forests -- 7 Nature, Mother, and Industry -- 8 Epilogue: The Global Ecological Revolution -- APPENDIXES -- Appendix A: Foods of Southeastern New England Indians, 1600-1675 -- Appendix B: Pelts Exported by John Pynchon, 1652-1663 -- Appendix C: Profile of Fifteen Inland Massachusetts Towns -- Appendix D: Land Use in Concord, Massachusetts -- Appendix E: Products of the New England Forest, 1840 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

With the arrival of European 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. This colonial ecological revolution lasted 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. 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.

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