A Plague of Sheep
Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico
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Part of Studies in Environment and History
- Author: Elinor G. K. Melville, York University, Toronto
- Date Published: October 1998
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521574488
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This is a book about the biological conquest of the New World. Taking as a case study the sixteenth-century history of a region of highland central Mexico, it shows how the environmental and social changes brought about by the introduction of Old World species aided European expansion. The book spells out in detail the environmental changes associated with the introduction of Old World grazing animals into New World ecosystems, demonstrates how these changes enabled the Spanish takeover of land, and explains how environmental changes shaped the colonial societies.
Read more- This is the second Latin American title in the Studies in Environment and History series. The previous book (Dean: Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber) sold well
- Takes a different perspective to other books on Latin American Environmental History
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- Date Published: October 1998
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521574488
- length: 220 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 153 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.335kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Alien landscapes
3. The Australian experience
4. The Mexican case
5. The conquest process
6. The colonial regime
Appendix 1. Sub-areas
Appendix 2. Sources for population estimates
Appendix 3. Sources for land holding and land use
Abbreviations
Glossary
Bibliography.
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