William Cronon: 2 books
Changes in the Land
Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize
Changes in the Land offers an original and persuasive interpretation of the changing circumstances in New England's plant and animal communities that occurred with the shift from Indian to European dominance. With the tools of both historian and ecologist,...
by William Cronon
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "No one has written a better book about a city…Nature's Metropolis is elegant testimony to the proposition that economic, urban, environmental, and business history can be as graceful, powerful, and fascinating as a novel." —Kenneth T. Jackson, Boston Globe