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The unending frontier : an environmental history of the early modern world / John F. Richards

Richards, John F. [Verfasser]

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 682 pages) : maps

California world history library ; 1

Includes bibliographical references (pages 623-659) and index

978-0-520-93935-6 ; 0-520-93935-2 ; 0-585-46852-4 ; 978-0-585-46852-5 ; 0-520-90095-2 ; 978-0-520-90095-0 ; 0-520-23075-2

AR 14000 NN 1300 NN 1520 RB 10844

 

Umwelt  Umweltveränderung  Anthropogener Einfluss  Klimaänderung  Geschichte 

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.