Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England. (book reviews)

Part descriptive history and part theoretical text, Ecological Revolutions sets out to model the interdependency of gender, production, reproduction, and human consciousness in New England. The story centers on two "revolutions" that together give the book narrative force. The first concerns the overwhelming impact that English colonial expansion and subsequent economic development had on the ecology of the New England Indians: Massachuset, Mohegan, Quirip, Tunxis, and Narraganset, among others.

The second moves the reader from this beginning in the seventeenth century to ...

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