The Destruction of the Bison
Andrew C Isenberg
(Author)
Description
For the last twenty years, The Destruction of the Bison has been an essential work in environmental history.
Andrew C.
Isenberg offers a concise analysis of the near-extinction of the North American bison population from an estimated 30 million in 1800 to fewer than 1000 a century later.
His wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study carefully considers the multiple causes, cultural and ecological, of the destruction of the species.
The twentieth-anniversary edition includes a new foreword connecting this seminal work to developments in the field - notably new perspectives in Native American history and the rise of transnational history - and placing the story of the bison in global context.
A new afterword extends the study to the twenty-first century, underlining the continued importance of this ground-breaking text for current, and future, students and scholars.
Product Details
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Publish Date | March 26, 2020 |
| Pages | 232 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781108816724 |
| Dimensions | 8.9 X 6.4 X 0.5 inches | 0.7 pounds |
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Reviews
'The Destruction of the Bison is one of those very rare books that manage to be the definite work on a subject and simultaneously profoundly change how we understand that subject. No one can write about the destruction of America's national mammal - and the peoples who exploited and cared for it - without engaging with Andrew Isenberg's bold masterwork.' Pekka Hämäläinen, University of Oxford
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