The World Hunt (Pocket)
avJohn F. Richards, J. R. (INT) McNeill, John F. Richards
ISBN: 9780520282537 - UTGIVEN: 2014-05The World Hunt focuses on the commercial hunting of wildlife and its profound global impact on the environment and world economy. A comprehensive digest of the massive expansion of the European quest for animal products, this book explores the fur trade in North America and Russia, cod fishing in th[...]
The Unending Frontier (Pocket)
avJohn F. Richards
ISBN: 9780520246782 - UTGIVEN: 2005-11-22Identifies four broadly shared historical processes that speeded environmental change from roughly 1500 to 1800 ce: intensified human land use along settlement frontiers; biological invasions; commercial hunting of wildlife; and problems of energy scarcity. This book considers each of these trends i[...]
The Mughal Empire (Häftad)
avJohn F. Richards
ISBN: 9780521566032 - UTGIVEN: 199601The Mughal empire was one of the largest centralised states in pre-modern world history. It was founded in the early 1500s and by the end of the following century the Mughal emperor ruled almost the entire Indian subcontinent with a population of between 100 and 150 millions. The Mughal emperors dis[...]
Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets: The Political Economy of Innovation (Övrig)
avJonathan D. Aronson, John E. Richards, Peter F. Cowhey
ISBN: 9780262012850 - UTGIVEN: 2009-03-06Innovation in information and communication technology (ICT) fuels the growth of the global economy. How ICT markets evolve depends on politics and policy, and since the 1950s periodic overhauls of ICT policy have transformed competition and innovation. For example, in the 1980s and the 1990s a revo[...]
