Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy : : Transforming Nature in Early New England / / Strother E. Roberts.
Focusing on the Connecticut River Valley—New England's longest river and largest watershed— Strother Roberts traces the local, regional, and transatlantic markets in colonial commodities that shaped an ecological transformation in one corner of the rapidly globalizing early modern world. Reachi...
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Roberts, Strother E., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy : Transforming Nature in Early New England / Strother E. Roberts. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019] ©2019 1 online resource (280 p.) : 8 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Early American Studies Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Conflicts, Choices, and Change -- Chapter 1. Hunting Beaver: The Postdiluvian World of the Fur Trade -- Chapter 2. Raising Crops: Feeding the Market -- Chapter 3. Gathering Firewood: Scarcity Amid Abundance -- Chapter 4. Felling Timber: Profits and Politics -- Chapter 5. Keeping Livestock: A Commerce in Beasts Domestic and Wild -- Epilogue. A New Era in the Life of the River -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Focusing on the Connecticut River Valley—New England's longest river and largest watershed— Strother Roberts traces the local, regional, and transatlantic markets in colonial commodities that shaped an ecological transformation in one corner of the rapidly globalizing early modern world. Reaching deep into the interior, the Connecticut provided a watery commercial highway for the furs, grain, timber, livestock, and various other commodities that the region exported. Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy shows how the extraction of each commodity had an impact on the New England landscape, creating a new colonial ecology inextricably tied to the broader transatlantic economy beyond its shores.This history refutes two common misconceptions: first, that globalization is a relatively new phenomenon and its power to reshape economies and natural environments has only fully been realized in the modern era and, second, that the Puritan founders of New England were self-sufficient ascetics who sequestered themselves from the corrupting influence of the wider world. Roberts argues, instead, that colonial New England was an integral part of Britain's expanding imperialist commercial economy.Imperial planners envisioned New England as a region able to provide resources to other, more profitable parts of the empire, such as the sugar islands of the Caribbean. Settlers embraced trade as a means to afford the tools they needed to conquer the landscape and to acquire the same luxury commodities popular among the consumer class of Europe. New England's native nations, meanwhile, utilized their access to European trade goods and weapons to secure power and prestige in a region shaken by invading newcomers and the diseases that followed in their wake. These networks of extraction and exchange fundamentally transformed the natural environment of the region, creating a landscape that, by the turn of the nineteenth century, would have been unrecognizable to those living there two centuries earlier. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021) HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775). bisacsh American History. American Studies. Ecology. Environmental Studies. Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English 9783110610765 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 9783110664232 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2019 English 9783110610178 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2019 9783110606195 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 9783110652055 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812296143 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812296143 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812296143.jpg |
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