Format:
XIV, 682 S.
,
Kt.
ISBN:
0520230752
Series Statement:
The California world history library 1
Content:
"John F. Richards identifies four broadly shared historical processes that accelerated environmental change from roughly 1500 to 1800 C.E.: intensified human land use along settlement frontiers, biological invasions, commercial hunting of wildlife, and problems of energy scarcity. The Unending Frontier considers each of these trends in a series of case studies, sometimes of a particular place, such as Tokugawa Japan and early modern England and China and sometimes of a particular activity, such as the fur trade in North America and Russia, cod fishing in the North Atlantic, and whaling in the Arctic. Richards shows how humans - whether clearing forests or draining wetlands, transporting bacteria, insects, and livestock, hunting species to extinction, or reshaping landscapes - altered the material well-being of the natural world along with their own."--BOOK JACKET.
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
Geography
Keywords:
Humanökologie
;
Geschichte 1500-1800
;
Umweltveränderung
;
Geschichte 1500-1800
;
Umwelt
;
Anthropogener Einfluss
;
Geschichte 1500-1800
;
Bibliografie
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0e6j9-aa
