ISBN:
9781107569874
Language:
English
Pages:
xxii, 368 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
Scond Edition, Canto Classics edition
DDC:
302.4
Keywords:
Geschichte 900-1900
;
Geschichte
;
Biogeography
;
Europeans Migrations
;
Human ecology
;
Human geography
;
Biogeografie
;
Humanökologie
;
Imperialismus
;
Expansionspolitik
;
Europäer
;
Ökologie
;
Kolonialismus
;
Pflanzengeografie
;
Umwelt
;
Auswanderung
;
Tiergeografie
;
Europa
;
Europäer
;
Expansionspolitik
;
Geschichte 900-1900
;
Imperialismus
;
Ökologie
;
Geschichte 900-1900
;
Europa
;
Auswanderung
;
Humanökologie
;
Geschichte 900-1900
;
Biogeografie
;
Kolonialismus
;
Geschichte 900-1900
;
Umwelt
;
Geschichte
;
Pflanzengeografie
;
Tiergeografie
Abstract:
People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world--North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain because in many cases they were achieved by using firearms against spears. Alfred Crosby, however, explains that the Europeans' displacement and replacement of the native peoples in the temperate zones was more a matter of biology than of military conquest. Now in a new edition with a new preface, Crosby revisits his classic work and again evaluates the ecological reasons for European expansion.
Note:
Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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