Colonial ecology, atlantic economy : transforming nature in early New England / Strother E. Roberts.

• Conflicts, choices, and change -- Hunting beaver: the postdiluvian world of fur trade -- Raising crops: feeding the market -- Gathering firewood: scarcity amid abundance -- Felling timber: profits and politics -- Keeping livestock: a commerce in beasts domestic and wild -- A new era in the life of the river.

• "This book is an exploration of how the early modern revolution in world commerce transformed human and ecological relations in the lands touched by European colonialism. At its heart lies the question of how and why, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the opportunities offered by transatlantic commerce led ordinary men and women--both settlers and Native peoples--to radically transform the ecology of one corner of their rapidly globalizing world. This book's five chapters revolve around five commodities which were especially important for networks of local, regional, and/or transatlantic trade in the colonial period: furs, agricultural crops, firewood, timber, and livestock"-- 

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Handel  (sao)

Humanekologi  (sao)

Historia  (sao)

Human ecology  -- New England -- History -- 17th century. (LCSH)

Human ecology  -- New England -- History -- 18th century. (LCSH)

Commerce.  (fast)

History  (LCSH)

Commerce  (LCSH)

Human ecology  (LCSH)

Förenta staterna  -- New England (sao)

New England  -- Commerce -- History -- 17th century. (LCSH)

New England  -- Commerce -- History -- 18th century. (LCSH)

New England  -- Environmental conditions -- History -- 17th century. (LCSH)

New England  -- Environmental conditions -- History -- 18th century. (LCSH)

United States.  (fast)

United States  -- Connecticut River Valley. (fast)

1600-talet  (sao)

1700-talet  (sao)

1600-1775  (fast)

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History.  (fast)

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304.2097409033 (DDC)

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