Shrinking the Earth : the rise and decline of American abundance / Donald Worster.

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"The discovery of the Americas around 1500 AD was an extraordinary watershed in human experience. It gave rise to the modern period of human ecology, a phenomenon global in scope that set in motion profound changes in almost every society on earth. This new period, which saw the depletion of the lan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Worster, Donald, 1941- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Human ecology > North America > History.
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Physical Description:xii, 265 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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