The world hunt
Subtitle: an environmental history of the commodification of animals
By: John F. Richards ; contributions by John R. McNeill
Series: California world history library; California world history library
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9780520282537
Subjects: Hunting; Nature; Wildlife conservation; Animal welfare; Effect of human beings on; Wildlife management; Human ecology; History
Description: " Presented here is the final and most coherent section of a sweeping classic work in environmental history, The Unending Frontier. The World Hunt focuses on the commercial hunting of wildlife and its profound global impact on the environment and the early modern world economy. Tracing the massive expansion of the European quest for animal products, The World Hunt explores the fur trade in North America and Russia, cod fishing in the North Atlantic, and whaling and sealing on the world's oceans and coastlands"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Edmund Burke III; title: Introduction / by J.R. McNeill; title: Furs and deerskins in Eastern North America; title: The hunt for furs in Siberia; title: Cod and the new world fisheries; title: Whales and walruses in the northern oceans.