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Second nature an environmental history of New England / Richard W. Judd.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 327 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781613762387
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • GF504 .S436 2014
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Contents:
Part I. The New World transformed: New England to 1800. 1. New England's Natives ; 2. Contact, colonization, and war ; 3. The ecologies of frontier farming -- Part II. Reconstructing nature in the industrial age, 1800 to 1900. 4. Industrializing the margins ; 5. Farm and factory ; 6. A transcendental place -- Part III. Synthetic technologies, organic needs: Conservation in New England, 1850 to 2000. 7. Science, conservation, and the commons ; 8. Conserving urban ecologies ; 9. Saving second nature.
Subject: "Bounded by the St. Lawrence Valley to the north, Lake Champlain to the west, and the Gulf of Maine to the east, New England may be the most cohesive region in the United States, with a long and richly recorded history. In this book, Richard W. Judd explores the mix of ecological process and human activity that shaped that history over the past 12,000 years."--Provided by publisher.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction GF504.45 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn896803276

Includes bibliographies and index.

"Bounded by the St. Lawrence Valley to the north, Lake Champlain to the west, and the Gulf of Maine to the east, New England may be the most cohesive region in the United States, with a long and richly recorded history. In this book, Richard W. Judd explores the mix of ecological process and human activity that shaped that history over the past 12,000 years."--Provided by publisher.

Introduction: People and the land in New England -- Part I. The New World transformed: New England to 1800. 1. New England's Natives ; 2. Contact, colonization, and war ; 3. The ecologies of frontier farming -- Part II. Reconstructing nature in the industrial age, 1800 to 1900. 4. Industrializing the margins ; 5. Farm and factory ; 6. A transcendental place -- Part III. Synthetic technologies, organic needs: Conservation in New England, 1850 to 2000. 7. Science, conservation, and the commons ; 8. Conserving urban ecologies ; 9. Saving second nature.

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