Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: William CrononForeword by: John DemosAfterword by: William CrononThe book that launched environmental history now updated. ...

Reducere. DescriptionA fascinating history of a contested frontier, where struggles over landownership brought Native Americans and English colonists togethe...

Reducere. In Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this book, Timothy Silver traces the effects of English settlement on South Atlantic ecology, showing how all three cultures--Indian,...

DescriptionAn exploration of the production, transmission, and mutation of affective tonality--when sound helps produce a bad vibe.Sound can be dep...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Brian MassumiIllustration(s): 21Number of pages: 224Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 143 x 216 ...

Reducere. The Ecology of Herbal Medicine introduces botanical medicine through an in-depth exploration of the land, presenting a unique guide to plants found...

Reducere. W. Deloss love's biography of Samson Occom is a work of in time. Long out of print, this classic account reveals one of the most unusual actors to ...

Reducere. During the brutal and destructive King Philip's War, the New England Indians combined new European weaponry with their traditional use of stealth, ...

Reducere. Peter J. Marchand's Life in the Cold remains the one book that offers a comprehensive picture of the interactions of plants and animals--including ...

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Reducere. God is the Creator of all and cares deeply for all that he has made. His vision for creation is seen through a world teeming with life where eterni...

Reducere. This book examines how the Wamapanoag Indians' adoption of Christianity and other selective borrowing from English culture contributed to Indian/En...

Reducere. DescriptionThe tragic and fascinating history of the first epic struggle between white settlers and Native Americans in the early seventeenth centu...

Reducere. This book examines and encourages the increasing involvement of those in the social sciences, including social work, as well as everyday citizens, ...

Reducere. DescriptionFocusing on the Connecticut River Valley--New England's longest river and largest watershed-- Strother Roberts traces the local, regiona...

One of the largest estuaries on the North Atlantic coast, Narragansett Bay served as a gateway for colonial expansion in the seventeenth century an...

Information overload, the shallows, weapons of mass distraction, the googlization of minds: countless commentators condemn the flood of images and ...

Reducere. Written from an Indian perspective, this text provides a history of the Lumbee Indians of southwestern North Carolina. Sections cover: the colonial...

Reducere. What are the Kushtaka? There are incredible stories of the sinister Kushtaka or "land otter man" as it is known by the Tlingit's all throughout Sou...

Reducere. DescriptionHedges and field margins are important wildlife habitats and deliver a range of ecosystem services, and their value is increasingly reco...

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PIRATES AND THEIR TREASURE IN NEW ENGLAND AND ON CAPE COD. Who were they and why were they here? The Golden Age on Cape Cod in New England was betw...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Didi PershouseIllustrator: Peter DonovanWhat can Cuban doctors, innovative ranchers in Saskatchewan, and the microbiome tea...

Reducere. "Land of Nakoda" is a vivid account of the history, legends, customs, crafts, and ceremonies of the Assiniboine Indians of the northern plains. Fir...

The book reaches out to palaeoanthropologists to explain how evolutionary adaptations were necessarily related to ecological shifts in savannas gov...

The book reaches out to palaeoanthropologists to explain how evolutionary adaptations were necessarily related to ecological shifts in savannas gov...

This edited volume engages with some of the most dynamic themes in current research on East Asian environmental history, including agricultural sci...

Reducere. This beautifully presented book offers an informed and fascinating account of the eighteen major tribes that lived in pre-colonial New England. Eac...

Together, the eastern counties of Hertfordshire, Essex, Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk have a tradition of f...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis IncAuthor(s): Stephen R. (Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) GliessmanIllustration(s): 40 f...

Eduardo Galeano writes: These pages, written in bursts, disorderly, jubilant and desperate, tell of the adventures and misfortunes of the man who h...

DescriptionMuch as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was a call to action against the pesticides that were devastating bird populations, Charles S. Elt...

Reducere. The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Johnson v. McIntosh established the basic principles that govern American Indian property rights to this day. In t...

Used in China as a book of divination and source of wisdom for more than three thousand years, the I Ching has been taken up by millions of English...

Reducere. What if the history of America's largest Indian nation is actually a polite modern fiction, one invented by "anthropologists and other friends"? In...

An exploration of one of England's great ancient monuments: the 360-foot-long chalk White Horse at Uffington.

In The Lives in Objects, Jessica Yirush Stern presents a thoroughly researched and engaging study of the deerskin trade in the colonial Southeast, ...

Reducere. Northern New England is known for its many beautiful lakes, rivers, and streamsand for outstanding fly-fishing. From Vermont's Battenkill, to the h...

The impact of global trade on early American visual and material culturePublisher: University Press of New EnglandIllustration(s): 136 illus. (27 c...

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Reducere. What do we actually know about stone walls? about the people who built them, and why? Stone walls are not simply monuments to the skill of Yankee f...