| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 682 pages) : maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
California world history library ; 1
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California world history library ; 1.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 623-659) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human ecology -- History.
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Human ecology. |
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History. |
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- History.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on. |
| Indexed Term |
Samfundsvidenskab Sociologi. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Richards, John F. Unending frontier. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003 0520230752 (DLC) 2001008658 (OCoLC)48761365 |
| ISBN |
9780520939356 (electronic book) |
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0520939352 (electronic book) |
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0585468524 (electronic book) |
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9780585468525 (electronic book) |
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0520900952 (electronic book) |
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9780520900950 (electronic book) |
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0520230752 |
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9780520230750 |
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