The Destruction of the Bison : An Environmental History, 1750-1920
The Destruction of the Bison : An Environmental History, 1750-1920
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Author(s): Isenberg, Andrew C.
ISBN No.: 9781108816724
Edition: Revised
Pages: 232
Year: 202003
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 35.64
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Status: Available

"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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