World Hunt

An Environmental History of the Commodification of Animals

AvJohn F. Richards

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

The World Hunt focuses on the commercial hunting of wildlife and its profound global impact on the environment and world economy. A comprehensive digest of the massive expansion of the European quest for animal products, this book explores the fur trade in North America and Russia, cod fishing in the North Atlantic, and whaling in the Arctic.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-05-10
Mått:152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt:272 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:California World History Library
Antal sidor:184
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520282537

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John Richards was Professor of History at Duke University and editor of Land, Property and the Environment (2001). He was also coeditor of World Deforestation in the Twentieth Century (1988) and Global Deforestation and the Nineteenth-Century World Economy (1983). He died in 2007. John McNeill is professor of history at Georgetown University and author of several books on world and environmental history, most recently Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1640-1914 (2010).

Innehållsförteckning

List of Maps and Tables Foreword by Edmund Burke Introduction by J. R. McNeill 1. Furs and Deerskins in Eastern North America 2. The Hunt for Furs in Siberia 3. Cod and the New World Fisheries 4. Whales and Walruses in the Northern Oceans Index