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Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900

ISBN: 9780521546188 | 0521546184
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 1/12/2004

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
As Alfred Crosby explains in his highly original and fascinating book, the Europeans' displacement and replacement of the native peoples in the temperate zones was more a matter of biology than of military conquest. Now in a new edition, Crosby revisits his classic work evaluating the reasons for European expansion.

The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain; in many cases they were a matter of firearms against spears. But as Alfred Crosby explains in his highly original and fascinating book... MORE
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1. Prologue
2. Pangaea revisited, the Neolithic reconsidered
3. The Norse and the Crusaders
4. The Fortunate Isles
5. Winds
6. Within reach, beyond grasp
7. Weeds
8. Animals
9. Ills
10. New Zealand
11. Explanations
12. Conclusion.
Alfred W. Crosby is Professor Emeritus in American Studies, History and Geography at the University of Texas at Austin.


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