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Zusatztext Empire of Extinction is a welcome addition to the small but growing field of Russian environmental history. Informationen zum Autor Ryan Tucker Jones is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Auckland. Klappentext In the second half of the eighteenth century, the Russian Empire-already the largest on earth-expanded its dominion onto the ocean. Through a series of government-sponsored voyages of discovery and the establishment of a private fur trade, Russians crossed and re-crossed the Bering Strait and the North Pacific Ocean, establishing colonies in Kamchatka and Alaska and exporting marine mammal furs to Europe and China. In the process they radically transformed the North Pacific, causing environmental catastrophe. Zusammenfassung Empire of Extinction examines the environmental catastrophe resulting from Russia's expansion into the North Pacific, causing Russians and other Europeans to recognize the threat of species extinction for the first time. This book demonstrates the importance of the North Pacific both for the Russian empire and for global environmental history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction The Meanings of Steller and His Sea Cow 1. The Second Kamchatka Expedition and the Empires of Nature 2. Promyshlenniki, Siberians, Alaskans, and Catastrophic Change in an Island Ecosystem 3. Naturalists Plan a North Pacific Empire 4. Extinction and Empire on the Billings Expedition 5. Ordering Arctic Nature: Peter Simon Pallas, Thomas Pennant, and Imperial Natural History 6. Empire of Order Conclusion Empire and Extinction Appendix Notes Index
