The Exploited Seas: New Directions for Marine Environmental History

by David J. Starkey, Poul Holm, Tim D. Smith

Book Overview

The book combines the approaches of maritime history and ecological science to explore the evolution of life-forms and eco-systems in the ocean from a historical perspective, in order to establish and develop the sub-discipline of marine environmental history. Documentary records relating to the human activity, such as fishing, plus naturally occurring paleo-ecological data are analysed in order to determine the structure and function of exploited...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0973007311
• ISBN13: 9780973007312
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 240 Pages