ESPM 50AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: William Cronon, Subsistence Agriculture, Surplus Product

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Environmental Science, Policy, And Management
• Course: ESPM 50AC
• Professor: k.Spreyer

Document Summary

Blackboard: c merchant - ecological revolutions, william cronon changes in the land, computers in class & gsis, fnr paper, midterm, wr10 - book assignment, unit ii web sites, terminology. Today: overview of unit ii themes, indian resource management in coastal new england in the early 17th century. Key themes: access to and control of land: property rights / conflict / dispossession / power relations, role of the state in shaping resource management, identity, cultural practices and resource management, environmental change. The big picture: comparative study of indian and european american natura resource management, emphasizing control over and access to land in the context of shifting power relations. Resource transfer: tenure system, fee-simple, you can apply all the technologies, but you need the property right to secure the safety in land, fences: function / symbolism, in plantation, why do you need fences, mark off nature from culture. Protestantism: personal relationship with gods, god wills on earth.