Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Chapter One The Boundaries of Nature; Chapter Two A New Ecology; Chapter Three The Landscape of History; Postscript The Theater of Insects; Note on Sources; Notes; Index; Acknowledgments
Summary
Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic reveals how Europeans and Native Americans devised ways to understand the environment. Drawing on paintings, oral history, early printed books, and other cultural artifacts, Peter C. Mancall argues that human understanding of nature played a central role in the emergence of the modern world
