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Chargement... Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New Englandpar Carolyn Merchant
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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. 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. In Ecological Revolutions, Carolyn Merchant analyzes these two major transformations in the New England environment between 1600 and 1860. 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. Merchant argues that past ways of relating to the land could become an inspiration for renewing resources and achieving sustainability in the future. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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By weaving these together, Merchant provides the reader with a fascinating account, ending in a philosophical epilogue that highlights the need of environmental action - and offering a philosophical framework and suggestions of how New England can go about it.
The one weakness I can note is that after the initial chapters, and prior to the epilogue, there is not much discussion of the Indigenous peoples in New England and any ongoing dispossession from the land, which would have been beneficial in understanding the continuing environmental impacts of colonization. Further, in the final chapters, when discussing the rise of capitalism and textile mills in the region, the discussion of the French Canadian and Irish immigrants working in these industries is not present.
The inclusion of ethnic others and their own dispossessions and exploitation in a capitalist extractavist economy may have added additional strength to the historic analysis, and contributed to the epilogue as well.
Overall, this book is a fantastic read, and offers critical insight. I would highly recommend it to any student of New England history, environmentalism, feminism, or marxism. It may quickly become one of your favorites as well! (