Agriculture, Resource Exploitation, and Environmental Change

Buch | Hardcover

394 Seiten

1997
Ashgate Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-0-86078-514-9 (ISBN)

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Focusing on the early modern period, this series explores European presence outside of Europe. This volume covers the exploitation of resources, specifically the exploitation of land and the ecological and environmental impact of this exploitation, particularly in Central and South America.

This volume examines the ecological consequences of European expansion as a result of land use and resource exploitation. These environmental transformations could be as dramatic as the last Ice Age, but scholars have only begun to take full measure of the changes. The articles presented here provide a map of some of the more promising directions of historical research. Major themes include biological exchange, agriculture, extraction of forest and animal resources, interactions between indigenous and European methods of exploitation, and European approaches to regulation and conservation. A useful corrective to the frontier image of Europeans conquering the wilderness, this volume provides a rich picture of the diversity of European interests and the sometimes unexpected consequences of their approaches to the land.

Helen Wheatley

Contents: Introduction; Biological exchange: Diffusion of mesoAmerican food complex to southeastern Europe, Jean Andrews; The rise of maize as a major crop plant in the Philippines, J. E. Spencer; Landscape, system, and identity in the post-conquest Andes, Daniel W. Gade; Bison ecology and bison diplomacy: the southern plains from 1800-1850, Dan Flores; Environmental change and social change in the Valle del Mezquital, Mexico, 1521-1600, Elinor G. K. Melville; Indigenous and colonial land-use systems in Indo-oceanian savannas: the case of New Caledonia, Jacques Barrau; Exploitation: Landscape of conquest: frontier water alienation and Khoikhoi strategies of survival, 1652-1780, Leonard Guelke and Robert Shell; Fuelwood in colonial Brazil: the economic consequences of fuel depletion for the Bahian RecÃ´ncavo, 1549-1820, Shawn W. Miller; Ax or plow? Significant colonial landscape alteration rates in the Maryland and Virginia tidewater, David O. Percy; Human influences on the pine and laurel forests of the Canary Islands, James J. Parsons; From hands to tutors: African expertise in the South Carolina rice economy, Judith A. Carney; Environmental change in colonial New Mexico, Robert MacCameron; Conservation: Saw several finners but no whales: the Greenland Right Whale (Bowhead) - an assessment of the biological basis of the northern whale fishery during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, Chelsey W. Sanger; Some conservation schemes of the Hudson’s Bay Company, 1821-50: an examination of the problems of resource management in the fur trade, Arthur J. Ray; Forest management and exploitation in colonial Java, 1677-1897, Peter Boomgaard; Conserving Eden: (the European) East India companies and their environmental policies on St. Helena, Mauritius and in western India, 1660-1854, Richard Grove; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.7.1997
Reihe/Serie	An Expanding World: The European Impact on World History, 1450 to 1800
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	0-86078-514-9 / 0860785149
ISBN-13	978-0-86078-514-9 / 9780860785149
Zustand	Neuware