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Frontier and pioneer life --- West (U.S.) --- History --- United States --- Western states --- Frontier life, to 1899 - Bibliographies

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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 Frontier offers a truly global perspective on the profound impact of humanity on the natural world in the early modern period. John F. Richards identifies four broadly shared historical processes that speeded environmental change from roughly 1500 to 1800 c.e.: intensified human land use along settlement frontiers; biological invasions; commercial hunting of wildlife; and problems of energy scarcity. The Unending Frontier considers each of these trends in a series of case studies, sometimes of a particular place, such as Tokugawa Japan and early modern England and China, sometimes of a particular activity, such as the fur trade in North America and Russia, cod fishing in the North Atlantic, and whaling in the Arctic. Throughout, Richards shows how humans-whether clearing forests or draining wetlands, transporting bacteria, insects, and livestock; hunting species to extinction, or reshaping landscapes-altered the material well-being of the natural world along with their own.

Human ecology --- Nature --- Environmental history --- History. --- Effect of human beings on --- Human ecology - History --- Nature - Effect of human beings on - History --- age of exploration. --- case studies. --- china. --- commercial hunting. --- conquest. --- deforestation. --- early modern period. --- england. --- environmental change. --- environmental history. --- environmental impact. --- frontier life. --- fur trade. --- global history. --- global perspective. --- historical processes. --- human impact. --- imperialism. --- japan. --- natural environment. --- natural historians. --- natural history. --- natural world. --- north america. --- reshaping landscapes. --- russia. --- settlement frontiers. --- wetland ecology.

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James Ron uses controversial comparisons between Serbia and Israel to present a novel theory of state violence. Formerly a research consultant to Human Rights Watch and the International Red Cross, Ron witnessed remarkably different patterns of state coercion. Frontiers and Ghettos presents an institutional approach to state violence, drawing on Ron's field research in the Middle East, Balkans, Chechnya, Turkey, and Africa, as well as dozens of rare interviews with military veterans, officials, and political activists on all sides. Studying violence from the ground up, the book develops an exciting new framework for analyzing today's nationalist wars.

Israel - Ethnic relations - Political aspects. --- Serbia - Ethnic relations - Political aspects. --- Serbia - Politics and government - 1992-. --- Serbia-- Ethnic relations-- Political aspects. --- State-sponsored terrorism. --- State-sponsored terrorism - Israel. --- State-sponsored terrorism - Yugoslavia - Serbia. --- State-sponsored terrorism --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- Balkan Peninsula --- Serbia --- Israel --- Ethnic relations --- Political aspects. --- Politics and government --- Government violence --- Governmental violence --- State-sponsored violence --- State terrorism --- Violence, Governmental --- Violence, State-sponsored --- Izrailʹ --- Medinat Yiśraʼel --- Yiśraʼel --- Izrael --- Isrāʼīl --- Israele --- Isŭrael --- I-se-lieh --- Medinat Israel --- State of Israel --- ישראל --- מדינת ישראל --- إسرائيل --- دولة إسرائيل --- Dawlat Isrāʼīl --- Ізраіль --- Дзяржава Ізраіль --- Dzi︠a︡rz︠h︡ava Izrailʹ --- Stát Izrael --- Država Izrael --- Ισραήλ --- Израиль --- Государство Израиль --- Gosudarstvo Izrailʹ --- イスラエル --- Isuraeru --- 以色列 --- Yiselie --- SRS --- RS de Serbije --- SR Srbija --- Srbija --- Servia --- Sot︠s︡ialisticheskai︠a︡ Respublika Serbii︠a︡ --- Serbii︠a︡ --- Narodna Republika Srbija --- N.R. Serbii︠a︡ --- NR Serbii︠a︡ --- Socialist Republic of Serbia --- Republic of Serbia --- Socijalistička Republika Srbija --- Republika Srbija --- People's Republic of Serbia --- Szerbia --- Србија --- Political atrocities --- Terrorism --- Serbia and Montenegro --- Palestine --- Terrorisme d'Etat --- Serbie --- Israël --- Relations interethniques --- Aspect politique --- Politique et gouvernement --- africa. --- anthropology. --- balkans. --- chechnya. --- comparative politics. --- cultural anthropology. --- cultural social. --- ethnic studies. --- frontier life. --- government officials. --- history of violence. --- human rights. --- institutional violence. --- interviews. --- israel. --- jewish ghettos. --- middle east. --- military veterans. --- nationalism. --- political activists. --- political analysts. --- political violence. --- political. --- serbia. --- sociologists. --- state violence. --- theoretical framework. --- turkey. --- war. --- warring states.