ESPM 50AC Lecture 10: lecutres 10&11
7 Oct 2015
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Blackboard: changing landscapes and indian life-ways in new england < in cronon. Not covered in lecture, but students are responsible for the material: rodrick nash: wilderness and the american mind, eric wolf: read only pages on syllabus (for fall"14) : most were just protestants looking for a better life. : religious fanatics who sought to reform the church of. = separatists religious fanatics / outcasts / sought: nature: what they saw - indian landscape with few indians, depopulated. : abandon villages & fields, cleared forest understory (from burning, but few fires evident without indians: morally empty space property claims, they saw virgin land on which to realize god"s will. : w/out indians or lockean markers of: commodities, nature/society. 1: so, while nas saw n as a whole with society & means to survival, settlers. : an object for the exercise of human labor see nature as. 1) to realize god"s will by cultivation & work.
