Extinction and the Human Four American Encounters.
In Extinction and the Human Timothy Sweet ponders the realities of animal extinction and endangerment and the often divergent Native American and Euro-American narratives that surround them, focusing especially on the force of human impact on megafauna--mammoths, whales, and the North American bison...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2021.
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Colección: | Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science Ser.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction. From the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene
- Chapter 1. A Prehistory of Extinction
- Chapter 2. Mammoths, the "Oeconomy of Nature," and Human Ecology
- Chapter 3. Does the Whale Diminish? Will He Perish?
- Chapter 4. Buffalo Commons, Buffalo Nation
- Reprise. The Human Exception Revisited
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments