The unending frontier : an environmental history of the early modern world / John F. Richards.
The unending frontier : an environmental history of the early modern world / John F. Richards.
The unending frontier : an environmental history of the early modern world / John F. Richards.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
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N304.2/ 155
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English
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xiv, 682 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Pt. I. The Global Context -- 1. The Early Modern World -- 2. Climate and Early Modern World Environmental History -- Pt. II. Eurasia and Africa -- 3. Pioneer Settlement on Taiwan -- 4. Internal Frontiers and Intensified Land Use in China -- 5. Ecological Strategies in Tokugawa Japan -- 6. Landscape...
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
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California
Date Published
c2003.
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"John F. Richards identifies four broadly shared historical processes that accelerated environmental change from roughly 1500 to 1800 C.E.: intensified human land use along settlement frontiers, biological invasions, commercial hunting of wildlife, and problems of energy scarcity. The Unending Frontier considers each of these trends in a series of...
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The unending frontier : an environmental history of the early modern world / John F. Richards.
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The California world history library ; 1.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 623-659) and index.
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c2003.
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N304.2/ 155
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74VveOx265Nb
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0520230752 :
9780520230750 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520230752 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520230750 :
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304.2
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991017037769702626
