Looking backward -- The view from Walden -- The ecological transformation of colonial New England -- Landscape and patchwork -- Seasons of want and plenty -- Bounding the land -- Commodities of the hunt -- Taking the forest -- A world of fields and fences -- Harvests of change -- That wilderness should turn a mart -- The book that almost wasn't

"[This book offers an] interpretation of the changing circumstances in New England's plant and animal communities that occurred with the shift from Indian to European dominance. [In the book, the author] constructs [an] interdisciplinary analysis of how the land and the people influenced one another, and how that complex web of relationships shaped New England's communities."--Cover p. [4]

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