Andrew C Isenberg

The Destruction of the Bison

An Environmental History, 1750-1920

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Produktbeschreibung

A concise environmental history of the near-extinction of the bison from the mid-eighteenth century to the present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 163mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781108816724
• ISBN-10: 110881672X
• Artikelnr.: 58503244

Autorenporträt

Andrew C. Isenberg is the Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas. An environmental historian specializing in the North American West, he is the co-author of The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump (2018) and the author of Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life (2013) and Mining California: An Ecological History (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

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.