The unending frontier : an environmental history of the early modern world
John F. Richards (Author)
It was the age of exploration, the age of empire and conquest, and human beings were extending their reach--and their numbers--as never before. In the process, they were intervening in the world's natural environment in equally unprecedented and dramatic ways
Electronic books
1 online resource (xiv, 682 pages) : maps
9780520939356, 9780585468525, 9780520900950, 0520939352, 0585468524, 0520900952
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The Global Context
The Early Modern World
Climate and Early Modern World Environmental History
Eurasia and Africa
Pioneer Settlement on Taiwan
Internal Frontiers and Intensified Land Use in China
Ecological Strategies in Tokugawa Japan
Landscape Change and Energy Transformation in the British Isles
Frontier Settlement in Russia
Wildlife and Livestock in South Africa
The Americas
The Columbian Exchange: The West Indies
Ranching, Mining, and Settlement Frontiers in Colonial Mexico
Sugar and Cattle in Portuguese Brazil
Landscapes of Sugar in the Antilles
The World Hunt
Furs and Deerskins in Eastern North America
The Hunt for Furs in Siberia
Cod and the New World Fisheries
Whales and Walruses in the Northern Oceans
Conclusion
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