Unending Frontier An Environmental History of the Early Modern World

Name: Unending Frontier An Environmental History of the Early Modern World
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ISBN: 9780520246782

ISBN-10: 0520246780

ISBN-13: 9780520246782

Edition: 2004

Authors: John F. Richards

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It was the age of exploration, the age of empire and conquest, and human beings were extending their reach--and their numbers--as never before. In the process, they were intervening in the world's natural environment in equally unprecedented and dramatic ways. A sweeping work of environmental history,The Unending Frontieroffers a truly global perspective on the profound impact of humanity on the natural world in the early modern period. John F. Richards identifies four broadly shared historical processes that speeded environmental change from roughly 1500 to 1800 c.e.: intensified human land use along settlement frontiers; biological invasions; commercial hunting of wildlife; and problems…

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List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/19/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 696
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English

John F. Richards is Professor of History at Duke University. He is the author of The Mughal Empire (1993) and Mughal Administration in Golconda (1975) and the editor of Land, Property and the Environment (2001). He is coeditor of World Deforestation in the Twentieth Century (1988) and Global Deforestation and the Nineteenth-Century World Economy (1983).



List of Maps


List of Tables


Preface


Introduction



The Global Context



The Early Modern World



Climate and Early Modern World Environmental History



Eurasia and Africa



Pioneer Settlement on Taiwan



Internal Frontiers and Intensified Land Use in China



Ecological Strategies in Tokugawa Japan



Landscape Change and Energy Transformation in the British Isles



Frontier Settlement in Russia



Wildlife and Livestock in South Africa



The Americas



The Columbian Exchange: The West Indies



Ranching, Mining, and Settlement Frontiers in Colonial Mexico



Sugar and Cattle in Portuguese Brazil



Landscapes of Sugar in the Antilles



The World Hunt



Furs and Deerskins in Eastern North America



The Hunt for Furs in Siberia



Cod and the New World Fisheries



Whales and Walruses in the Northern Oceans


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index