Ecological imperialism : the biological expansion of Europe, 900-1900

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Ecological imperialism : the biological expansion of Europe, 900-1900

Alfred W. Crosby

Cambridge University Press, 1993

Canto ed

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Includes index

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People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world - North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain; in many cases they were a matter of firearms against spears. But as Alfred Crosby explains in his highly original and fascinating book, the Europeans' displacement and replacement of the native peoples in the temperate zones was more a matter of biology than of military conquest.

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  • NCID
    BA61769946
  • ISBN
    • 0521320097
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiv, 368 p., [16] p. of plates
  • Size
    23 cm
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