The destruction of the bison : an environmental history, 1750-1920
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The destruction of the bison : an environmental history, 1750-1920
（Studies in environment and history）
Cambridge University Press, 2020
20th anniversary ed
- : pbk
Available at 1 libraries
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Includes index
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Description
For the last twenty years, The Destruction of the Bison has been an essential work in environmental history. Andrew C. Isenberg offers a concise analysis of the near-extinction of the North American bison population from an estimated 30 million in 1800 to fewer than 1000 a century later. His wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study carefully considers the multiple causes, cultural and ecological, of the destruction of the species. The twentieth-anniversary edition includes a new foreword connecting this seminal work to developments in the field - notably new perspectives in Native American history and the rise of transnational history - and placing the story of the bison in global context. A new afterword extends the study to the twenty-first century, underlining the continued importance of this ground-breaking text for current, and future, students and scholars.
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The grassland environment
- 2. The genesis of the nomads
- 3. The nomadic experiment
- 4. The ascendancy of the market
- 5. The wild and the tamed
- 6. The returns of the bison
- Conclusion
- Afterword
- Index.
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