Fish, Gold, and Cotton: New World Resources in Western Europe

Exposing a phenomenon overlooked by many historians, Carson Fellow Donald Worster explains the importance of New World resources on Western European society in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Worster details the role that gold, silver, fish, lumber, and cotton had on the imagination and thought processes of Europeans in this time period. Donald Worster is an American environmental historian and is the Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1989.

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Fish, Gold, and Cotton: New World Resources in Western Europe is an episode from Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

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This episode was published on May 2, 2011.

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