The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750–1920
ISBN: 9780521003483 | 0521003482
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 1/15/2001
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In this wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study, Andrew C. Isenberg argues that the cultural and ecological encounter between Native Americans and Euroamericans in the Great Plains was the central cause of the near-extinction of the bison.
The Destruction of the Bison explains the decline of the North American bison population from an estimated 30 million in 1800 to fewer than a thousand a century later. In this wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study, Andrew C. Isenberg argues that the cultural and ecological encounte... MORE
The Destruction of the Bison explains the decline of the North American bison population from an estimated 30 million in 1800 to fewer than a thousand a century later. In this wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study, Andrew C. Isenberg argues that the cultural and ecological encounte... MORE
| Acknowledgments | xi | ||||
| Introduction | 1 | (12) | |||
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| Conclusion | 193 | (6) | |||
| Index | 199 |
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