Ice Blink : Navigating Northern Environmental History /
edited by Stephen Bocking and Brad Martin.
Bok Engelsk 2017
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| Omfang | 1 online resource
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| Opplysninger | Introduction -- 1. Navigating northern environmental history / Stephen Bocking.. - Part 1. Forming northern colonial environments. 2. Moving through the margins : the "All-Canadian" route to the Klondike and the strange experience of the Teslin Trail / Jonathan Peyton -- 3. The experimental state of nature : science and the Canadian Reindeer Project in the interwar north / Andrew Stuhl -- 4. Shaped by the land : an envirotechnical history of a Canadian bush plane / Marionne Cronin -- 5. Many tiny traces : antimodernism and northern exploration between the wars / Tina Adcock.. - Part 2. Transformations and the modern north. 6. From subsistence to nutrition : the Canadian state's involvement in food and diet in the north, 1900-1970 / Liza Piper -- 7. Hope in the barrenlands : northern development and sustainability's Canadian history / Tina Loo -- 8. Western Electric turns north : technicians and the transformation of the Cold War Arctic / Matthew Farish and P. Whitney Lackenbauer.. - Part 3. Environmental history and the contemporary north. 9. "That's the place where I was born" : history, narrative ecology, and politics in Canada's north / Hans M. Carlson -- 10. Imposing territoriality : First Nation land claims and the transformation of human-environment relations in the Yukon / Paul Nadasdy -- 11. Ghost towns and zombie mines : the historical dimensions of mine abandonment, reclamation, and redevelopment in the Canadian north / Arn Keeling and John Sandlos -- 12. Toxic surprises : contaminants and knowledge in the northern environment / Stephen Bocking -- 13. Climate anti-politics : scale, locality, and Arctic climate change / Emilie Cameron -- Conclusion. 14. Encounters in northern environmental history / Stephen Bocking.. - Northern Canada's distinctive landscapes, its complex social relations and the contested place of the North in contemporary political, military, scientific and economic affairs have fueled recent scholarly discussion. At the same time, both the media and the wider public have shown increasing interest in the region. This timely volume extends our understanding of the environmental history of northern Canada - clarifying both its practice and promise, and providing critical perspectives on current public debates.Ice Blink provides opportunities to consider critical issues in other disciplines a.
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| ISBN | 1-55238-855-7. - 1552388565. - 9781552388563
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