The Destruction of the Bison

An Environmental History, 1750-1920

AvAndrew C. Isenberg

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Del i serien Studies in Environment and History

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Beskrivning

For the last twenty years, The Destruction of the Bison has been an essential work in environmental history. Andrew C. Isenberg offers a concise analysis of the near-extinction of the North American bison population from an estimated 30 million in 1800 to fewer than 1000 a century later. His wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study carefully considers the multiple causes, cultural and ecological, of the destruction of the species. The twentieth-anniversary edition includes a new foreword connecting this seminal work to developments in the field - notably new perspectives in Native American history and the rise of transnational history - and placing the story of the bison in global context. A new afterword extends the study to the twenty-first century, underlining the continued importance of this ground-breaking text for current, and future, students and scholars.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-03-26
Mått:163 x 226 x 13 mm
Vikt:318 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Environment and History
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108816724

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Andrew C. Isenberg is the Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas. An environmental historian specializing in the North American West, he is the co-author of The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump (2018) and the author of Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life (2013) and Mining California: An Ecological History (2005).

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'The Destruction of the Bison is one of those very rare books that manage to be the definite work on a subject and simultaneously profoundly change how we understand that subject. No one can write about the destruction of America's national mammal - and the peoples who exploited and cared for it - without engaging with Andrew Isenberg's bold masterwork.' Pekka Hämäläinen, University of Oxford

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The grassland environment; 2. The genesis of the nomads; 3. The nomadic experiment; 4. The ascendancy of the market; 5. The wild and the tamed; 6. The returns of the bison; Conclusion; Afterword; Index.