The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920

For the last twenty years, The Destruction of the Bison has been an essential work in environmental history. Andrew C. Isenberg offers a concise analysis of the near-extinction of the North American bison population from an estimated 30 million in 1800 to fewer than 1000 a century later. His wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study carefully considers the multiple causes, cultural and ecological, of the destruction of the species. The twentieth-anniversary edition includes a new foreword connecting this seminal work to developments in the field - notably new perspectives in Native American history and the rise of transnational history - and placing the story of the bison in global context. A new afterword extends the study to the twenty-first century, underlining the continued importance of this ground-breaking text for current, and future, students and scholars.

Author: Andrew C. Isenberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03/26/2020
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.40w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781108816724
ISBN10: 110881672X
BISAC Categories:
- Nature | Animals | Wildlife
- History | United States | 19th Century
- Nature | Animals | Mammals