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200 14$aThe unending frontier$b[electronic resource] $ean environmental history of the early modern world /$fby John F. Richards
210   $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2003
215   $a1 online resource (697 p.)
225 1 $aThe California world history library ;$v1
225  0$aACLS Humanities E-Book
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 623-659) and index.
327   $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Maps --$tList of Tables --$tPreface --$tIntroduction --$tPart I. The Global Context --$tPart II. Eurasia and Africa --$tPart III. The Americas --$tPart IV. The World Hunt --$tConclusion --$tBibliography --$tIndex
330   $aIt 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 Frontier offers 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 of energy scarcity. The Unending Frontier considers each of these trends in a series of case studies, sometimes of a particular place, such as Tokugawa Japan and early modern England and China, sometimes of a particular activity, such as the fur trade in North America and Russia, cod fishing in the North Atlantic, and whaling in the Arctic. Throughout, Richards shows how humans-whether clearing forests or draining wetlands, transporting bacteria, insects, and livestock; hunting species to extinction, or reshaping landscapes-altered the material well-being of the natural world along with their own.
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610   $aage of exploration.
610   $acase studies.
610   $achina.
610   $acommercial hunting.
610   $aconquest.
610   $adeforestation.
610   $aearly modern period.
610   $aengland.
610   $aenvironmental change.
610   $aenvironmental history.
610   $aenvironmental impact.
610   $afrontier life.
610   $afur trade.
610   $aglobal history.
610   $aglobal perspective.
610   $ahistorical processes.
610   $ahuman impact.
610   $aimperialism.
610   $ajapan.
610   $anatural environment.
610   $anatural historians.
610   $anatural history.
610   $anatural world.
610   $anorth america.
610   $areshaping landscapes.
610   $arussia.
610   $asettlement frontiers.
610   $awetland ecology.
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