The World Hunt :: an Environmental History of the Commodification of Animals.

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 exp...

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Main Author: Richards, John F.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.
©2014
Series:California world history library.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (182 pages)
ISBN:9780520958470
0520958470
0520282531
9780520282537
1306770491
9781306770491

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