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Author : Richard M. DeGraaf,Mariko Yamasaki
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0874519578
The only comprehensive guide to the natural histories and habitats of all inland New England species
Author : Eric D. Lehman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781493052196
Since its founding four hundred years ago, New England has been a vital source of nature writing. Maybe it’s the diversity of landscapes huddled so close together or the marriage of nature and culture in a relatively small, six-state region. Maybe it’s the regenerative powers of the ecosystem in a place of repeated exploitations. Or maybe we have simply been thinking about our relationship with the natural world longer than everyone. If all successive nature writing is a footnote to Henry David Thoreau, then New England has a strong claim to being the birthplace of the genre. But there are, as the sixty entries in this anthology demonstrate, many other regional voices that extol the wonders and beauty of the outdoors, explore local ecology, and call for environmental sustainability. Between these covers, Noah Webster calls for our stewardship of nature and Lydia Sigourney finds sublime pleasure in it. Jonathan Edwards and Helen Keller both find miracles, while Samuel Peters and Mark Twain find humor. Author Nathaniel Hawthorne discovers a place to hide his metaphors, while the enslaved James Mars discovers an actual hiding place. Through it all is the apprehension of a profound and lasting splendor, “the glory of physical nature,” as W.E.B. Dubois calls it, something beyond our everyday concerns and yet tied so closely to our daily lives that we cannot escape it. Nature writing cultivates our sense of beauty, inflaming curiosity and the passion to explore. It opens us to deep, primal experiences that enrich life. Anyone wanting to understand our relationship with the world must start here.
Author : Kenn Kaufman,Kimberly Kaufman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780618456970
Presents an illustrated field guide to the plants, wildlife, night sky, and natural environments of New England.
Author : Theodore Steinberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521527112
A reinterpretation of industrialization that centres on the struggle to control and master nature.
Author : John S. Burk
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781611680096
The Essential Guide to Viewing New England Wildlife
Author : Charles Fergus
Publisher : Falcon Guides
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Trees
ISBN : 0762737956
A beautifully written natural history of the more than seventy tree species that grow in New England. Includes detailed illustrations and range maps.
Author : Tom Wessels
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781643260945
Step Out of Your Car and Right into Nature! New England’s Roadside Ecology guides you through 30 spectacular natural sites, all within an easy walk from the road. The sites include the forests, wetlands, alpines, dunes, and geologic ecosystems that make up New England. Author Tom Wessels is the perfect guide. Each entry starts with the brief description of the hike's level of difficulty—all are gentle to moderate and cover no more than two miles. Entries also include turn-by-turn directions and clear descriptions of the flora, fauna, and fungi you are likely to encounter along the way. New England’s Roadside Ecology is a must-have guide for outdoor enthusiasts, hikers, and tourists in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Author : Strother E. Roberts
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812251272
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.
Author : Richard M. DeGraaf
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1584655879
The authoritative, professional guide to improving and sustaining diverse wildlife habitat conditions in New England.
Author : Carolyn Merchant
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780807899625
With the arrival of European explorers and settlers during the seventeenth century, Native American ways of life and the environment itself underwent radical alterations as human relationships to the land and ways of thinking about nature all changed. This colonial ecological revolution held sway until the nineteenth century, when New England's industrial production brought on a capitalist revolution that again remade the ecology, economy, and conceptions of nature in the region. In Ecological Revolutions, Carolyn Merchant analyzes these two major transformations in the New England environment between 1600 and 1860. In a preface to the second edition, Merchant introduces new ideas about narrating environmental change based on gender and the dialectics of transformation, while the revised epilogue situates New England in the context of twenty-first-century globalization and climate change. Merchant argues that past ways of relating to the land could become an inspiration for renewing resources and achieving sustainability in the future.
Author : Richard William Judd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Human ecology
ISBN : 1625341016
8. Conserving Urban Ecologies -- 9. Saving Second Nature -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover
Author : Tom Wessels
Publisher : Nature
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0881504203
Chronicles the forest in New England from the Ice Age to current challenges
Author : Mary Holland
Publisher : Trafalgar Square Books
Page : 1703 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781570769115
2011 National Outdoor Book Award for Nature Guidebook Are you ready for a black fly bite to get graphic, for a barred owl's call to take on new meaning, and for the life cycle of the eastern newt to suddenly seem complex, beautiful, and intricately bound to the subtle patterns of mysterious underwater landscapes and damp forest floors? Naturalist Mary Holland's new book Naturally Curious promises a walk in the woods will never be the same. Holland leads you through the New England seasons out-of-doors—through the sun, rain, and snow; along roadsides and wetlands; above underground burrows and under treetop nesting sites. With just a turn of the page you'll suddenly know more about the creatures that frequent your backyard or the pond you visit every summer than you ever thought possible. Naturally Curious perfectly melds practical field guide with informal nature literature, providing you the remarkable opportunity to sit back, relax, and learn something fascinating about the natural world around you.
Author : Margaret Ellen Newell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801456473
In Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands of Indians. Massachusetts became the first English colony to legalize slavery in 1641, and the colonists' desire for slaves shaped the major New England Indian wars, including the Pequot War of 1637, King Philip's War of 1675–76, and the northeastern Wabanaki conflicts of 1676–1749. When the wartime conquest of Indians ceased, New Englanders turned to the courts to get control of their labor, or imported Indians from Florida and the Carolinas, or simply claimed free Indians as slaves.Drawing on letters, diaries, newspapers, and court records, Newell recovers the slaves' own stories and shows how they influenced New England society in crucial ways. Indians lived in English homes, raised English children, and manned colonial armies, farms, and fleets, exposing their captors to Native religion, foods, and technology. Some achieved freedom and power in this new colonial culture, but others experienced violence, surveillance, and family separations. Newell also explains how slavery linked the fate of Africans and Indians. The trade in Indian captives connected New England to Caribbean and Atlantic slave economies. Indians labored on sugar plantations in Jamaica, tended fields in the Azores, and rowed English naval galleys in Tangier. Indian slaves outnumbered Africans within New England before 1700, but the balance soon shifted. Fearful of the growing African population, local governments stripped Indian and African servants and slaves of legal rights and personal freedoms. Nevertheless, because Indians remained a significant part of the slave population, the New England colonies did not adopt all of the rigid racial laws typical of slave societies in Virginia and Barbados. Newell finds that second- and third-generation Indian slaves fought their enslavement and claimed citizenship in cases that had implications for all enslaved peoples in eighteenth-century America.
Author : Neil Jorgensen
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Nature
ISBN : WISC:89031190291