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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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 8 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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