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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
[2016]
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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.