Epilogue: a new era in the life of the river. 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.
Summary:
Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy focuses on New England's largest watershed to explore how the participation of Native nations and English settlers in local, regional, and transatlantic markets for colonial commodities transformed the physical environment in one corner of the rapidly globalizing early modern world.
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