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The unending frontier : an environmental history of the early modern world

著者: John F Richards
出版商: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
丛书: California world history library, 1.
版本/格式:   图书 : 州政府或者省政府刊物 : 英语查看所有的版本和格式
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"John F. Richards identifies four broadly shared historical processes that accelerated environmental change from roughly 1500 to 1800 C.E.: intensified human land use along settlement frontiers, biological invasions, commercial hunting of wildlife, and problems of energy scarcity. The Unending Frontier considers each of these trends in a series of case studies, sometimes of a particular place, such as Tokugawa Japan  再读一些...
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材料类型: 政府刊物, 州政府或者省政府刊物, 互联网资源
文件类型: 书, 互联网资源
所有的著者/提供者: John F Richards
ISBN: 0520230752 9780520230750
OCLC号码: 48761365
描述: xiv, 682 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
内容: The early modern world --
Climate and early modern world environmental history --
Pioneer settlement on Taiwan --
Internal frontiers and intensified land use in China --
Ecological strategies in Tokugawa Japan --
Landscape change and energy transformation in the British Isles --
Frontier settlement in Russia --
Wildlife and livestock in South Africa --
The Columbian exchange : the West Indies --
Ranching, mining, and settlement frontiers in colonial Mexico --
Sugar and cattle in Portuguese Brazil --
Landscapes of sugar in the Antilles --
Furs and deerskins in eastern North America --
The hunt for furs in Siberia --
Cod and the new world fisheries --
Whales and walruses in the northern oceans.
丛书名: California world history library, 1.
责任: by John F. Richards.
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This work identifies four broadly shared historical processes that speeded environmental change from roughly 1500 to 1800 CE: intensified human land use along settlement frontiers; biological  再读一些...

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"Richards advances beyond a purely Eurocentric approach to the dynamics of change and presents the frontier as an evolving, interactive process influenced by both human and non-human factors. That is 再读一些...

 
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