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World Hunt An Environmental History of the Commodification of Animals

Richards John F.
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780520282537
Publisert
2014-05-10
Utgiver
Vendor
University of California Press
Vekt
272 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
13 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Richards John F.
Contributions by
McNeill John R.

Om bidragsyterne

John Richards was Professor of History at Duke University and editor of Land, Property and the Environment (2001). He was also coeditor of World Deforestation in the Twentieth Century (1988) and Global Deforestation and the Nineteenth-Century World Economy (1983). He died in 2007. John McNeill is professor of history at Georgetown University and author of several books on world and environmental history, most recently Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1640-1914 (2010).

World Hunt An Environmental History of the Commodification of Animals

Richards John F.
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk
Richards John F.
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk
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The World Hunt focuses on the commercial hunting of wildlife and its profound global impact on the environment and world economy. A comprehensive digest of the massive expansion of the European quest for animal products, this book explores the fur trade in North America and Russia, cod fishing in the North Atlantic, and whaling in the Arctic.
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Focuses on the commercial hunting of wildlife and its profound global impact on the environment and the early modern world economy. Tracing the massive expansion of the European quest for animal products, this title explores the fur trade in North America and Russia, and whaling and sealing on the world's oceans and coastlands.
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List of Maps and Tables Foreword by Edmund Burke Introduction by J. R. McNeill 1. Furs and Deerskins in Eastern North America 2. The Hunt for Furs in Siberia 3. Cod and the New World Fisheries 4. Whales and Walruses in the Northern Oceans Index
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The World Hunt focuses on the commercial hunting of wildlife and its profound global impact on the environment and world economy. A comprehensive digest of the massive expansion of the European quest for animal products, this book explores the fur trade in North America and Russia, cod fishing in the North Atlantic, and whaling in the Arctic.
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Focuses on the commercial hunting of wildlife and its profound global impact on the environment and the early modern world economy. Tracing the massive expansion of the European quest for animal products, this title explores the fur trade in North America and Russia, and whaling and sealing on the world's oceans and coastlands.
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List of Maps and Tables Foreword by Edmund Burke Introduction by J. R. McNeill 1. Furs and Deerskins in Eastern North America 2. The Hunt for Furs in Siberia 3. Cod and the New World Fisheries 4. Whales and Walruses in the Northern Oceans Index
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780520282537
Publisert
2014-05-10
Utgiver
Vendor
University of California Press
Vekt
272 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
13 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Richards John F.
Contributions by
McNeill John R.

Om bidragsyterne

John Richards was Professor of History at Duke University and editor of Land, Property and the Environment (2001). He was also coeditor of World Deforestation in the Twentieth Century (1988) and Global Deforestation and the Nineteenth-Century World Economy (1983). He died in 2007. John McNeill is professor of history at Georgetown University and author of several books on world and environmental history, most recently Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1640-1914 (2010).

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