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Bison and people on the North American Great Plains : a deep environmental history /

The near disappearance of the American bison in the nineteenth century is commonly understood to be the result of over-hunting, capitalist greed, and all but genocidal military policy. This interpretation remains seductive because of its simplicity; there are villains and victims in this familiar ca...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cunfer, Geoff, 1966- (Autor, Editor )
Otros Autores: Waiser, W. A. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2016]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Connecting the greater west series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Overview: The decline and fall of the bison empire / Geoff Cunfer
  • Reviewing an iconic story: environmental history and the demise of the bison / Dan Flores
  • People and bison in the ancient past
  • A bison's view of landscape and the paleoenvironment / Alwynne B. Beaudoin
  • A hunter's quest for fat bison / Jack W. Brink
  • An overview of prehistoric communal bison hunting on the Great Plains / Ernest G. Walker
  • Acceleration: European contact and the horse revolution
  • A fur trade historian's view of seasonal bison movement on the Northern Plains / Ted Binnema
  • A horse-man's view of a grassland revolution / Elliott West
  • A metis view of the summer market hunt on the Northern Plains / George Colpitts
  • Tipping point: nineteenth-century cataclysm
  • A tanner's view of the bison hunt: global tanning and industrial leather / Jennifer Hansen
  • A legislator's view of bison collapse: the 1877 Northwest Territories bison protection ordinance / Bill Waiser
  • A rancher's view of the post-bison West: filling the vacuum / Matt Todd
  • A Lakota view of pte oyáte (buffalo nation) / David C. Posthumus
  • Contributors.