The destruction of the bison : an environmental history, 1750-1920 /
"The Destruction of the Bison explains the decline of the North American bison population from an estimated 30 million in 1800 to fewer than 1000 a century later. In this wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study, Andrew C. Isenberg argues that the cultural and ecological encounter between Native A...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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Colección: | Studies in environment and history.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The grassland environment
- The genesis of the Nomads
- The Nomadic experiment
- The ascendancy of the market
- The wild and the tamed
- The return of the bison.