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For Americans unfamiliar with the Cherokee georgic, Removal could be written off as yet one more instance of the inevitable disappearance of a primitive mode of life. Robert Beverley had much earlier described a loss of “Native Pleasures” resulting from colonization and had proposed a calculus of co...

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Published inAmerican Georgics p. 153
Main Author TIMOTHY SWEET
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc 01.01.2011
Subjects
Agriculture
Animals
Anthropology
Behavioral sciences
Big game hunting
Biological sciences
Biology
Birds
Botany
Deer hunting
Dendrology
Earth sciences
Ecological economics
Ecological sustainability
Environmental economics
Environmental sciences
Environmental studies
Geography
Green economics
Human behavior
Humanity
Humans
Hunting
Land
Mammals
Marshes
Nature
Philosophical anthropology
Physical sciences
Pigeons
Primates
Rangelands
Sustainable agriculture
Trees
Wetlands
Zoology
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Summary:For Americans unfamiliar with the Cherokee georgic, Removal could be written off as yet one more instance of the inevitable disappearance of a primitive mode of life. Robert Beverley had much earlier described a loss of “Native Pleasures” resulting from colonization and had proposed a calculus of compensation in which a georgic society, through diversified economic engagement with the natural environment uniting beauty and use, might hope to repair the loss. Differing valuations of this loss are registered in our literature as early as the conflict between Thomas Morton and the Plymouth colonists. In New English Canaan (1637), Morton found
ISBN:0812236378
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