The unending frontier : an environmental history of the early modern world /

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Richards, John F. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Colección:California world history library ; 1.
Temas:
Human ecology > History.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > History.
Êtres humains > Influence sur la nature > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Human ecology
Nature > Effect of human beings on
Milieuverandering.
Wereldgeschiedenis.
Mens en natuur.
Samfundsvidenskab > Sociologi.
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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