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.