The Destruction of the Bison : An Environmental History, 1750-1920 (Studies in Environment and History)

Isenberg, Andrew C.

Cambridge University Press（2020/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 232 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781108816724
• DDC分類 333.9596430978

Full 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.

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.