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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 |
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| 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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摘要:
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 invasions; commercial hunting of wildlife; and problems of energy scarcity.
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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 no mean achievement."--"Times Literary Supplement" 再读一些...
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