ISBN:
9780520246782
,
0520246780
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 682 Seiten
,
Karten
Edition:
First paperback printing
Series Statement:
The California world history library 1
Series Statement:
The California world history library
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg. Richards, John F., 1938 - 2007 The Unending Frontier
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Human ecology History
;
Nature Effect of human beings on
;
History
;
Human ecology
;
Nature
;
Umwelt
;
Geschichte 1500-1800
;
Humanökologie
;
Geschichte 1500-1800
;
Humanökologie
;
Anthropogener Einfluss
;
Geschichte 1500-1800
;
Umwelt
;
Anthropogener Einfluss
;
Umweltveränderung
;
Klimaänderung
Description / Table of Contents:
The early modern world -- Climate and early modern world environmental history -- 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 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 -- 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.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis Seite 623 - 659 und Index
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