Writing style
Academic · Dense · Descriptive
Apple BooksChanges in the land
History
- Print length
- 257 pagesHill and Wang, 2003
Description
William Cronon’s environmental history examines the interactions among Indigenous peoples, European colonists, and the ecology of New England. He focuses especially on how colonists’ ideas about property and their capitalist aims affected the region’s ecosystems. Rather than treating land as a passive backdrop, Cronon presents people and environment as forces that continually shaped one another. Human choices altered the landscape, while ecological conditions influenced what communities could do. This interdisciplinary account therefore connects social change with environmental change, showing how different relationships to land carried consequences for both societies and ecosystems. The book offers a reciprocal history of New England’s people and natural world.
Reading profile
About this profile
Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
- Emotional intensity
- Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Pace
Measured
Tone
Cerebral · Detached · Earnest
Structure
Argumentative · Chronological nonfiction
Focus
Argument · Ideas · Information
Emotional intensity
2 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 4 / 5
- Ideas
- 5 / 5
- Structure
- 4 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 3 / 5
Themes
Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- Hill and Wang
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780809016341
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