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The World Hunt
An Environmental History of the Commodification of Animals
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John F. Richards
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English
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2014
About this book
Presented here is the final and most coherent section of a sweeping classic work in environmental history, The Unending Frontier. The World Hunt focuses on the commercial hunting of wildlife and its profound global impact on the environment and the early modern world economy. Tracing the massive expansion of the European quest for animal products, The World Hunt explores the fur trade in North America and Russia, cod fishing in the North Atlantic, and whaling and sealing on the world’s oceans and coastlands.
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Richards John F. :
John Richards was Professor of History at Duke University and editor of Land, Property and the Environment (2001). He was also coeditor of World Deforestation in the Twentieth Century (1988) and Global Deforestation and the Nineteenth-Century World Economy (1983). He died in 2007.
John McNeill is professor of history at Georgetown University and author of several books on world and environmental history, most recently Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1640-1914 (2010).
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May 10, 2014
eBook ISBN:
9780520958470
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157
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9780520958470
Keywords for this book
commercial hunting of wildlife; wildlife; natural world; environmentalism; the unending frontier series; california world history library series; animal products; environmental history; fur trade; cod fishing; whaling; sealing; global impact; world history; european history; american history; russian history; capitalism; nature; hunting; modern world economy; european quests; north america; russia; north atlantic; oceans; coastlands; furs; deerskin; siberia; whales; walruses; retrospective; political; animals; history
