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

By:

Worster, Donald, 1941-

Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2016]Description: xii, 265 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780199844951
019984495X

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Additional physical formats: Online version:: Shrinking the earth.DDC classification:

304.2097 23

LOC classification:

GF501 .W67 2016

Summary: "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 lands of the New World, proved tragic for some, triumphant for others, and powerfully affecting for all."--Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-252) and index.

"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 lands of the New World, proved tragic for some, triumphant for others, and powerfully affecting for all."--Provided by publisher.

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