Changes in the Land American arts and literature and

American arts and literature and the environment

The Persistence of Yellow is filled with whimsy and wisdom

and real estate

to colonial Kingston burning on the horizon and British warships anchored off its docks

Changes in the Land American arts and literature andIn this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an updated afterword by the author and a new preface by the distinguished colonialist John Demos, Changes in the Land, provides a brilliant inter disciplinary interpretation of how land and people