Shrinking the Earth : the rise and decline of American abundance / Donald Worster.
"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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| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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| Physical Description: | xii, 265 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Format: | Book |