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Changes in the land

William Cronon

1983241 pagesabout 4–6 hours
1983
first published
  • 1983Hill and Wang · 241 pages · ENGISBN 9780809034055
  • 2003Hill and Wang · 257 pages · ENGISBN 9780809016341
  • 2011Hill and Wang · ENGISBN 9781429928281
  • 1988Farrar Straus & Giroux IncISBN 9780571120642

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. 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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