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The Unending Frontier

- An Environmental History of the Early Modern World

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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.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780520246782
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 696
  • Udgivet:
  • 19. januar 2006
  • Størrelse:
  • 228x153x51 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 1058 g.
  • 8-11 hverdage.
  • 9. december 2024

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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.

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