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Colonial ecology, Atlantic economy : transforming nature in early New England /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roberts, Strother E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
Series:Early American studies.
Subjects:
Commerce > History.
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Connecticut River Valley > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: conflicts, choices, and change
  • Hunting beaver: the postdiluvian world of the 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
  • Epilogue: a new era in the life of the river.