The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World
By John F. Richards (NHC Fellow, 1979–80; 2000–01) It was the age of exploration, the age of empire and conquest, and human beings were extending their reach—and their numbers—as never before. In the process, they were intervening in the world's natural environment in equally unprecedented and dramatic ways. A sweeping work of environmental history, The Unending … Continued
