Destruction of the Bison
An Environmental History, 1750-1920
The Destruction of the Bison, first published in 2000, explains the decline of the North American bison population from an estimated 30 million in 1800 to fewer than a thousand a century later. In this wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study, Andrew C. Isenberg argues that the cultural and ecological encounter between Native Americans and Euroamericans in the Great Plains was the central cause of the near-extinction of the bison. Cultural and ecological interactions created new types of bison hunters on both sides of the encounter: mounted Indian nomads and Euroamerican industrial hidemen. Together with environmental pressures these hunters nea…
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- ISBN: 978-1-107-71068-9
- EAN: 9781107710689
- Produktnummer: 16941868
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 69'722 KB
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