A New Face on the Countryside
Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in South Atlantic Forests, 1500–1800

Silver traces the effects of English settlement on South Atlantic ecology, showing how three cultures interacted with their changing environment.

Timothy Silver (Author)

9780521387392, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 30 March 1990

216 pages
22.7 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.34 kg

"...this fine study serves not only as an agenda for research, but as a pioneering view of the early history of the American experience with nature in North America." Mart A. Stewart, The Americas

In this book, Timothy Silver traces the effects of English settlement on South Atlantic ecology, showing how three cultures - Indian, European, and African - interacted with and were, in turn, affected by, their changing environment. In assessing such ecological changes, Silver pays particular attention to regional variations, explaining how local geography and settlement patterns influenced the environment. And although his focus is the English South, Silver also shows us how economic and ecological developments in Europe, the Caribbean, and elsewhere frequently dictated how South Atlantic colonists used their land. Consequently, his book provides an engaging and detailed look at the complex relationships between humans, plants, and animals in a unique and diverse region of North America.

List of figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Prologue: images and boundaries
2. Perspectives on the land
3. Perspectives on the people, 1500
4. Europeans going thither
5. An accessible desert
6. The price of civility
7. Conclusion: perspectives on the land and people, 1800
Index.

Subject Areas: Social & cultural history [HBTB]