Extinction and the Human : : Four American Encounters / / Timothy Sweet.
The Americas have been the site of two distinct waves of human migration, each associated with human-caused extinctions. The first occurred during the late Pleistocene era, some ten to thirty thousand years ago; the other began during the time of European settler-colonization and continues to this d...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2021] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction. From the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene
- Chapter 1. A Prehistory of Extinction
- Chapter 2. Mammoths, the “Oeconomy of Nature,” and Human Ecology
- Chapter 3. Does the Whale Diminish? Will He Perish?
- Chapter 4. Buffalo Commons, Buffalo Nation
- Reprise. The Human Exception Revisited
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments