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This book is a "review of the impact of European colonialization on the cultural and natural landscapes of native North America. In this text ... the author has focused on rare & neglected first-hand French and Spanish source materials to provide us with ecologically and ethnographically ri...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
Turtle Island,
1980.
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| Online Access: | French equivalent / Équivalent français |
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This book is a "review of the impact of European colonialization on the cultural and natural landscapes of native North America. In this text ... the author has focused on rare & neglected first-hand French and Spanish source materials to provide us with ecologically and ethnographically rich, stunningly detailed and articulate portraits of the American Landscape, and the culturally sophisticated Native land-management systems which were already in place at the dawn of Euro-American history. Far from a vast and open wilderness's America was, at its dawn, already a human environment, as Sauer so clearly demonstrates, and our history as a people would swing on the ability of our early 'Founding fathers, ' often no more than glorified European real estate agents, to perceive the intricacies of these eco-systems as they lay before them like an open book"--Back cover. |
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295 pages : 23 illustrations, maps ; 27 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-259) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0913666238 9780913666234 091366622X 9780913666227 |