Research Catalog

Title

The world hunt : an environmental history of the commodification of animals / John F. Richards ; contributions by John R. McNeill.

Author

Richards, John F.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.

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Description

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Summary

" Presented here is the final and most coherent section of a sweeping classic work in environmental history, The Unending Frontier. The World Hunt focuses on the commercial hunting of wildlife and its profound global impact on the environment and the early modern world economy. Tracing the massive expansion of the European quest for animal products, The World Hunt explores the fur trade in North America and Russia, cod fishing in the North Atlantic, and whaling and sealing on the world's oceans and coastlands"--

Series Statement

California world history library

Uniform Title

California world history library.

Subject

• Animal welfare
• Animal welfare
• HISTORY / Europe / Western
• HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
• HISTORY / World
• Human ecology
• Human ecology > History
• Hunting
• Hunting
• Nature > Effect of human beings on
• Nature > History
• Wildlife conservation
• Wildlife conservation
• Wildlife management
• Wildlife management

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / by Edmund Burke III -- Introduction / by J.R. McNeill -- Furs and deerskins in Eastern North America -- The hunt for furs in Siberia -- Cod and the new world fisheries -- Whales and walruses in the northern oceans.

ISBN

• 9780520282537 (paperback)
• 0520282531 (paperback)
• 9780520958470 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013048538

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library