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The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920 (Studies in Environment and History)
by Andrew C. Isenberg
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- Comments: The Destruction of the Bison explains the decline of the North American bison population from an estimated 30 million in 1800 to fewer than 1000 a century later. In this wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study, Andrew C. Isenberg argues that the cultural and ecological encounter between Native Americans and Euroamericans in the Great Plains was the central cause of the near extinction of the bison. Drought and the incursion of domestic livestock and exotic species such as horses into...
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- ISBN-13: 9780521003483
- ISBN: 0521003482
- Publication Date: 2001
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This work draws on new sources to reassess the decline of the North American bison population from an estimated 300 million in 1800 to fewer than 1000 a century later. The old, simplistic story of unrestrained greed is extensively revised.Andrew C. Isenberg is the author of 'The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920 (Studies in Environment and History)', published 2001 under ISBN 9780521003483 and ISBN 0521003482.
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