The Destruction of the Bison - An Environmental History, 1750-1920

Informationen zum Autor Andrew C. Isenberg is Professor of History at Temple University. Isenberg's research interests include environmental history! the history of the North American West! the United States from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century! and the encounter between Euroamericans and natives. He is the author of Mining California: An Ecological History (2005) and the editor of The Nature of Cities: Culture! Landscape! and Urban Space (2006). Klappentext This study examines the cultural and ecological causes of the near-extinction of the bison. Zusammenfassung In this wide-ranging! interdisciplinary study! first published in 2000! Andrew C. Isenberg argues that the cultural and ecological encounter between Native Americans and Euroamericans in the Great Plains was the central cause of the near-extinction of the bison. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The grassland environment; 2. The genesis of the Nomads; 3. The Nomadic experiment; 4. The ascendancy of the market; 5. The wild and the tamed; 6. The return of the bison.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Isenberg Andrew C., Andrew C. Isenberg, Andrew C. (Professor of History Isenberg
• Mitarbeit: Donald Worster (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 15.01.2001
• EAN: 9780521003483
• ISBN: 978-0-521-00348-3
• Seiten: 220
• Serien: Studies in Environment and History; Studies in Environment and His; Studies in Environment and His
• Thema: Sachbuch