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The unending frontier : an environmental history of the early modern world / John F. Richards.

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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.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Richards, John F. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Series:California world history library ; 1.
Subjects:
Human ecology > History.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > History.
Human ecology.
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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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