The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World

Table of contents

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• The Unending Frontier *
• The California World History Library *
• Title Page *
• Contents *
• Maps ix
• Tabels xi
• Preface xiii
• Introduction 1
• Part I - The Global Context 15
• Chapter 1 - The Early Modern World 17
• Chapter 2 - Climate and Early Modern World Environmental History 58
• Part II - Eurasia and Africa 87
• Chapter 3 - Pioneer Settlement on Taiwan 89
• Chapter 4 - Internal Frontiers and Intensified Land Use in China 112
• Chapter 5 - Ecological Strategies in Tokugawa Japan 148
• Chapter 6 - Landscape Change and Energy Transformation in the British Isles 193

• The Unending Frontier *
• The California World History Library *
• Title Page *
• Contents *
• Maps ix
• Tabels xi
• Preface xiii
• Introduction 1
• Part I - The Global Context 15
• Chapter 1 - The Early Modern World 17
• Chapter 2 - Climate and Early Modern World Environmental History 58
• Part II - Eurasia and Africa 87
• Chapter 3 - Pioneer Settlement on Taiwan 89
• Chapter 4 - Internal Frontiers and Intensified Land Use in China 112
• Chapter 5 - Ecological Strategies in Tokugawa Japan 148
• Chapter 6 - Landscape Change and Energy Transformation in the British Isles 193
• Chapter 7 - Frontier Settlement in Russia 242
• Chapter 8 - Wildlife and Livestock in South Africa 274
• Part III - The Americas 307
• Chapter 9 - The West Indies 309
• Chapter 10 - Ranching, Mining, and Settlement Frontiers in Colonial Mexico 334
• Chapter 11 - Sugar and Cattle in Portuguese Brazil 377
• Chapter 12 - Landscapes of Sugar in the Antilles 412
• Part IV - The World Hunt 461
• Chapter 13 - Furs and Deerskins in Eastern North America 463
• Chapter 14 - The Hunt for Furs in Siberia 517
• Chapter 15 - Cod and the New World Fisheries 547
• Chapter 16 - Whales and Walruses in the Northern Oceans 574
• Conclusion 617
• Bibliography 623
• Index 661