The World Hunt: An Environmental History of the Commodification of Animals (California World History Library)

The World Hunt: An Environmental History of the Commodification of Animals (California World History Library)

John F. Richards, John R. McNeill (Contributions by)
$24.95
Publication Date: May 10th, 2014
Publisher:
University of California Press
ISBN:
9780520282537
Pages:
184
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Description

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.

About the Author

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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