World Hunt

An Environmental History of the Commodification of Animals

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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The World Hunt focuses on the commercial hunting of wildlife and its profound global impact on the environment and world economy. A comprehensive digest of the massive expansion of the European quest for animal products, this book explores the fur trade in North America and Russia, cod fishing in the North Atlantic, and whaling in the Arctic.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-05-10
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt272 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCalifornia World History Library
Antal sidor184
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520282537

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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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