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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.

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List of Maps and Tables Foreword by Edmund Burke Introduction by J. R. McNeill 1. Furs and Deerskins in Eastern North America 2. The Hunt for Furs in Siberia 3. Cod and the New World Fisheries 4. Whales and Walruses in the Northern Oceans Index

The World Hunt

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    A Paperback / softback by John F. Richards, John R. McNeill

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/05/2014
      ISBN13: 9780520282537, 978-0520282537
      ISBN10: 0520282531

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      List of Maps and Tables Foreword by Edmund Burke Introduction by J. R. McNeill 1. Furs and Deerskins in Eastern North America 2. The Hunt for Furs in Siberia 3. Cod and the New World Fisheries 4. Whales and Walruses in the Northern Oceans Index

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