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american history
animal products
animals
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coastlands
cod fishing
commercial hunting of wildlife
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environmental history
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european history
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fur trade
furs
global impact
history
hunting
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modern world economy
natural world
nature
north america
north atlantic
oceans
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political
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retrospective
russia
russian history
sealing
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the unending frontier series
walruses
whales
whaling
wildlife
world history
Product details
- ISBN 9780520282537
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 May 2014
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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The World Hunt focuses on the commercial hunting of wildlife and its profound global impact on the environment and world economy. A comprehensive digest of the massive expansion of the European quest for animal products, this book explores the fur trade in North America and Russia, cod fishing in the North Atlantic, and whaling in the Arctic.
John Richards was Professor of History at Duke University and editor of Land, Property and the Environment (2001). He was also coeditor of World Deforestation in the Twentieth Century (1988) and Global Deforestation and the Nineteenth-Century World Economy (1983). He died in 2007. John McNeill is professor of history at Georgetown University and author of several books on world and environmental history, most recently Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1640-1914 (2010).
