A New Face on the Countryside
Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in South Atlantic Forests, 1500-1800
Published on 30. March 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-0-521-38739-2 (ISBN)
Description
In this book, Timothy Silver traces the effects of English settlement on South Atlantic ecology, showing how three cultures - Indian, European, and African - interacted with and were, in turn, affected by, their changing environment. In assessing such ecological changes, Silver pays particular attention to regional variations, explaining how local geography and settlement patterns influenced the environment. And although his focus is the English South, Silver also shows us how economic and ecological developments in Europe, the Caribbean, and elsewhere frequently dictated how South Atlantic colonists used their land. Consequently, his book provides an engaging and detailed look at the complex relationships between humans, plants, and animals in a unique and diverse region of North America.
Reviews / Votes
"...thoroughly engrossing....Timothy Silver offers a wealth of fascinating information about the topography and the flora and fauna of the region east of the Appalachians, south of Pennsylvania, and north of the Okefenokee Swamp....rewarding reading." American Ethnologist "Simply by assessing the ecological implications of European and Indian assumptions and practices concerning the fur trade, or describing Euro-African agricultural practices, Silver brings alive the ecologist's perception of nature as a complex web of interactions." Choice "...original scholarship....Silver shows us how such history should be written." John Phillip Reid, Pacific Historical Review "...this fine study serves not only as an agenda for research, but as a pioneering view of the early history of the American experience with nature in North America." Mart A. Stewart, The AmericasMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
361 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-38739-2 (9780521387392)
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Timothy Silver
A New Face on the Countryside
Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in South Atlantic Forests, 1500-1800
Book
03/1990
Cambridge University Press
€68.09
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Timothy Silver
A New Face on the Countryside
Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in South Atlantic Forests, 1500-1800
Book
03/1990
Cambridge University Press
€68.09
Article exhausted; check for reprint
Content
List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Prologue: images and boundaries; 2. Perspectives on the land; 3. Perspectives on the people, 1500; 4. Europeans going thither; 5. An accessible desert; 6. The price of civility; 7. Conclusion: perspectives on the land and people, 1800; Index.