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The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World
John F. Richards
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Description for The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World
Paperback. 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. This book considers each of these trends in a series of case studies. Series: California World History Library. Num Pages: 696 pages, 27 maps, 6 tables. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 42. Weight in Grams: 968. An Environmental History of the Early Modern World. Series: California World History Library. 696 pages, illustrations. 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. This book considers each of these trends in a series of case studies. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HB. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 42. Weight: 928.
It was the age of exploration, the age of empire and conquest, and human beings were extending their reach - and their numbers - as never before. In the process, they were intervening in the world's natural environment in equally unprecedented and dramatic ways. A sweeping work of environmental history, "The Unending Frontier" offers a truly global perspective on the profound impact of humanity on the natural world in the early modern period. John F. Richards identifies four broadly shared historical processes that speeded environmental change from roughly 1500 to 1800 c.e.: intensified human land use along settlement frontiers; biological ... Read more
It was the age of exploration, the age of empire and conquest, and human beings were extending their reach - and their numbers - as never before. In the process, they were intervening in the world's natural environment in equally unprecedented and dramatic ways. A sweeping work of environmental history, "The Unending Frontier" offers a truly global perspective on the profound impact of humanity on the natural world in the early modern period. John F. Richards identifies four broadly shared historical processes that speeded environmental change from roughly 1500 to 1800 c.e.: intensified human land use along settlement frontiers; biological ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
696
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
California World History Library
Condition
New
Weight
970g
Number of Pages
696
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520246782
SKU
V9780520246782
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About John F. Richards
John F. Richards is Professor of History at Duke University. He is the author of The Mughal Empire (1993) and Mughal Administration in Golconda (1975) and the editor of Land, Property and the Environment (2001). He is coeditor of World Deforestation in the Twentieth Century (1988) and Global Deforestation and the Nineteenth-Century World Economy (1983).
Reviews for The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World
“Richards steers a calm course between these extremes [of the catastrophic and the celebratory view of environmental history], but it is as clear from his choice of examples as from his language that he inclines more to the celebratory than the apocalyptic view. . . . Richards advances beyond a purely Eurocentric approach to the dynamics of change and presents ... Read more