The World Hunt (California World History Library): An Environmental History of the Commodification of Animals

by John R. McNeill (Author), John F. Richards (Author)

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  Abridged
  2014

  $23.84

  Focuses on the commercial hunting of wildlife and its profound global impact on the environment and the early modern world economy. Tracing the massive expansion of the European quest for animal products, this title explores the fur trade in North America and Russia, and whaling and sealing on the world's oceans and coastlands.