Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Studies in Environment and History
ISBN-10
110881672X
ISBN-13
9781108816724
Edition
Revised
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 26th, 2020
Print length
232 Pages
Weight
356 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.80 x 1.50 cms
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The Destruction of the Bison offers a concise environmental history of the near-extinction of the bison. This twentieth-anniversary edition includes a foreword that connects the book to developments in the field over the last two decades and an afterword that brings the story of the bison up to the present.
"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. Cultural and ecological interactions created new types of bison hunters on both sides of the encounter: mounted Indian nomads and Euroamerican industrial hidemen. Together with environmental pressures, these hunters nearly extinguished the bison. In the early twentieth century, nostalgia about the very cultural strife that first threatened the bison became, ironically, an important impetus to its preservation. Andrew C. Isenberg is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University"--
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