| The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920 Revised Edition Contributor(s): Isenberg, Andrew C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 110881672X ISBN-13: 9781108816724 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $23.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Animals - Wildlife - History | United States - 19th Century - Nature | Animals - Mammals |
| Dewey: 599.643 |
| LCCN: 2020004256 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.4" W x 8.9" (0.70 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |