wyszukanych pozycji: 5
Pemmican Empire: Food, Trade, and the Last Bison Hunts in the North American Plains, 1780-1882
ISBN: 9781107044906 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the British territories of the North American Great Plains, food figured as a key trading commodity after 1780, when British and Canadian fur companies purchased ever-larger quantities of bison meats and fats (pemmican) from plains hunters to support their commercial expansion across the continent. Pemmican Empire traces the history of the unsustainable food-market hunt on the plains, which, once established, created distinctive trade relations between the newcomers and the native peoples. It also resulted in the near annihilation of the Canadian bison herds north of the Missouri River....
In the British territories of the North American Great Plains, food figured as a key trading commodity after 1780, when British and Canadian fur compa...
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396,70 zł |
Pemmican Empire: Food, Trade, and the Last Bison Hunts in the North American Plains, 1780-1882
ISBN: 9781107622890 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 317 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Pemmican Empire explores the fascinating and little-known environmental history of the role of pemmican (bison fat) in the opening of the British-American West.
Pemmican Empire explores the fascinating and little-known environmental history of the role of pemmican (bison fat) in the opening of the British-Amer...
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154,52 zł |
Game in the Garden: A Human History of Wildlife in Western Canada to 1940
ISBN: 9780774809627 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In what is now western Canada, humans have long used wildlife in order to survive their surroundings, better understand their natural world, and form aspects of their identity. This book identifies the imaginative use of wild animals in early western society to explore a previously neglected avenue of social history. By examining grassroots conservation activities, early slaughter rituals, iconographic traditions, and subsistence strategies, Colpitts clearly demonstrates how western attitudes to wild animals changed according to subsistence and economic needs - through the fur trade,... In what is now western Canada, humans have long used wildlife in order to survive their surroundings, better understand their natural world, and fo... |
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453,87 zł |
Game in the Garden: A Human History of Wildlife in Western Canada to 1940
ISBN: 9780774809634 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In what is now western Canada, humans have long used wildlife in order to survive their surroundings, better understand their natural world, and form aspects of their identity. This book identifies the imaginative use of wild animals in early western society to explore a previously neglected avenue of social history. By examining grassroots conservation activities, early slaughter rituals, iconographic traditions, and subsistence strategies, Colpitts clearly demonstrates how western attitudes to wild animals changed according to subsistence and economic needs - through the fur trade,... In what is now western Canada, humans have long used wildlife in order to survive their surroundings, better understand their natural world, and fo... |
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156,46 zł |
Finding Directions West: Readings That Locate and Dislocate Western Canada's Past
ISBN: 9781552388808 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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190,50 zł |