It focuses specifically on the New England area, and the ecological changes wrought on the landscape by the arriving colonists (and the attitudes toward property, wealth, land, etc.), but he also talks a lot about the way the Native Americans of the region lived on the land prior to the arrival of Europeans. My understanding of his analysis of Native American practices puts them somewhere between a hunter/gatherer culture and an agrarian culture. By all accounts the Native Americans did 'tread lightly' on the landscape as compared to Europeans, but they did in fact have profound effects on it too, implementing practices that maximized 'edges' etc., planting guilds, etc.
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