The Market in Birds: Commercial Hunting, Conservation, and the Origins of Wildlife Consumerism, 1850-1920
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A fascinating look at how a commercial market for birds in the late nineteenth century set the stage for conservation and its legislation. Between the end of the Civil War and the 1920s, the United States witnessed the creation, rapid expansion, and then disappearance of a commercial market for hunted wild animals. The bulk of commercial wildlife sales in the last part of the nineteenth century were of wildfowl, who were prized not...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1421443406
ISBN13:9781421443409
Release Date:April 2022
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.41 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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