| Description |
xii, 206 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Studies in environment and history
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Studies in environment and history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The grassland environment -- The genesis of the Nomads -- The Nomadic experiment -- The ascendancy of the market -- The wild and the tamed -- The return of the bison. |
| Summary |
"The Destruction of the Bison explains the decline of the North American bison population from an estimated 30 million in 1800 to fewer than 1000 a century later. In this wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study, Andrew C. Isenberg argues that the cultural and ecological encounter between Native Americans and Euroamericans in the Great Plains was the central cause of the near-extinction of the bison. Cultural and ecological interactions created new types of bison hunters on both sides of the encounter: mounted Indian nomads and Euroamerican industrial hidemen. Together with environmental pressures, these hunters nearly extinguished the bison. |
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In the early twentieth century, nostalgia about the very cultural strife that first threatened the bison became, ironically, an important impetus to its preservation."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
American bison.
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American bison. |
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American bison hunting -- History.
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American bison hunting. |
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History. |
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- North America.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on. |
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North America. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Subject |
American bison -- Ecology.
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Prairie ecology -- West (U.S.)
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European Americans -- West (U.S.) -- History.
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Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) -- History.
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| ISBN |
0521003482 (paperback) |
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0521771722 |
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9780521771726 |
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9780521003483 (paperback) |
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