Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900

Title: Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
Author: Alfred W Crosby
H: 1707130
ISBN: 9780521336130
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1987
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 1
Number of Pages: 390
Section: Social Science | Human Geography
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Publisher Description: People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world - North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain; in many cases they were a matter of firearms against spears. But as Alfred Crosby explains in his highly original and fascinating book, the Europeans' displacement and replacement of the native peoples in the temperate zones was more a matter of biology than of military conquest.