Cattle Colonialism: An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai'i, Paperback - John Ryan Fischer

Reducere. In the nineteenth century, the colonial territories of California and Hawai'i underwent important cultural, economic, and ecological transformation...

DescriptionPresented here is the final and most coherent section of a sweeping classic work in environmental history, The Unending Frontier. The Wo...

Reducere. DescriptionWestern Oregon's Willamette Basin, once a vast wilderness, became a thriving community almost overnight. When Oregon territory was opene...

An Environmental History of Ancient Greece and Rome - Lukas Thommen

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mark FiegeForeword by: William CrononIn the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes t...

Reducere. In this iconoclastic book, Francis Jennings recasts the story of American colonization as a territorial invasion. The traditional history of early ...

Reducere. From the arrival of Henry Hudson's Half Moon in the estuarial waters of what would come to be called New York Harbor to the 2006 agreement that lai...

Reducere. As the very first book of its kind, An Environmental History of Medieval Europe provides a highly original survey of medieval relations with the na...

The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic upheavals. In his s...

Reducere. Soldier of fortune and 16th century Spanish conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo is best known today for his first-hand accounts of Spain's expedi...

The Earth has entered a new age--the Anthropocene--in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. Since the mid-twentieth centu...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Bernal Diaz del CastilloTranslator: Ted HumphreyNumber of pages: 498Publication date: 2012Dimension...

Reducere. This is the late John A. Crow's classic study of the cultural history of Spain and its people, which he last updated in 1985 but which seems as fre...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. A corrective to the contemporary idea that Buddhism has always been an environmentally friendly religionIn the current popular imagination, Buddhis...

French North America in the Shadows of Conquest is an interdisciplinary, postcolonial, and continental history of Francophone North America across ...

In this closely integrated collection of essays on colonialism in world history, Frederick Cooper raises crucial questions about concepts relevant ...

The former Soviet empire spanned eleven time zones and contained half the world's forests; vast deposits of oil, gas, and coal; various ores; major...

Reducere. The History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo, a new abridgement of Diaz del Castillo's classic Historia verdadera de la con...

The Sierra Nevada, California's iconic mountain range, harbors thousands of remote high-elevations lakes from which water flows to sustain agricult...

How, then, do people decide which risks to take and which to ignore? On what basis are certain dangers guarded against and others relegated to seco...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "It is quite time that our children were taught a l...

Reducere. The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Unabridged Edition (Vol.1-2).The author of this original and charming production, to whic...

DescriptionCalifornia's early history was both colorful and turbulent. After Europeans first explored the region in the sixteenth century, it was c...

Reducere. The American cowboy has long been a popular figure in fiction, motion pictures, and studies of the West, but over the years inaccuracies have crept...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Description"Let this book immerse you in the many worlds of environmental justice."--Naomi Klein We are living in a precarious environmental and po...

DescriptionIn Search of Our Frontier explores the complex transnational history of Japanese immigrant settler colonialism, which linked Japanese Am...

Popes continue to preach crusade, but the hope of a Christian empire comes to a bloody end at the walls of Constantinople. Aristotelian logic and G...

Reducere. How did the Civil War and the emancipation of four million slaves reconfigure the natural landscape in the South and the farming economy dependent ...

Reducere. For the last twenty years, The Destruction of the Bison has been an essential work in environmental history. Andrew C. Isenberg offers a concise an...

Reducere. In September 1965, Filipino and Mexican American farm workers went on strike against grape growers in and around Delano, California. More than a la...

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

In 1531, Pizarro led a small but well trained army along the Pacific Coast of the unexplored South America. With less than 200 men, he conquered th...

Reducere. From the outset, society in Japan has been shaped by its environmental context. The lush green mountainous archipelago of today supports a populati...

Reducere. Surviving Conquest is a history of the Yavapai Indians, who have lived for centuries in central Arizona. Although primarily concerned with survival...

Few states of the United States have a more varied, a more interesting or a more instructive history than California, and few have done so little t...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Ryan C. EdwardsIllustration(s): 22 b-w photographs, 5 mapsNumber of pages: 272Publication date:...

Evil Readers, as ye partake of Encyclopaedia of Hell, rejoice! The hateful sequel written by Satan has arrived! After Hell's army conquers Insignif...

Publisher: Sagwan PressAuthor(s): John, MD AlexanderNumber of pages: 168Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 164 x 240 x 18Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Ryan BoehmIllustration(s): 6 mapsNumber of pages: 316Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 22...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rosina LozanoAn American Language is a tour de force that revolutionizes our understanding of U.S. history. It reveals the ...