Forthelasttwentyyears,TheDestructionoftheBisonhasbeenanessentialworkinenvironmentalhistory.AndrewC.Isenbergoffersaconciseanalysisofthenear-extinctionoftheNorthAmericanbisonpopulationfromanestimated30millionin1800tofewerthan1000acenturylater.Hiswide-ranging,interdisciplinarystudycarefullyconsidersthemultiplecauses,culturalandecological,ofthedestructionofthespecies.Thetwentieth-anniversaryeditionincludesanewforewordconnectingthisseminalworktodevelopmentsinthefield-notablynewperspectivesinNativeAmericanhistoryandtheriseoftransnationalhistory-andplacingthestoryofthebisoninglobalcontext.Anewafterwordextendsthestudytothetwenty-firstcentury,underliningthecontinuedimportanceofthisground-breakingtextforcurrent,andfuture,studentsandscholars.
