Unending frontier : an environmental history of the early modern world, The
Human ecology Nature ympäristöhistoria NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection SOCIAL SCIENCE History sähkökirjat
University of California Press
2003
EISBN 0520900952
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.
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.
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.
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.
