Floating Coast

An Environmental History of the Bering Strait

AvBathsheba Demuth

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Across Russia’s easternmost shores and through the territories of the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how, over 150 years, people turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power.Beginning in the 1840s, capitalism and then communism, with their ideas of progress, transformed the area around the Bering Strait into a historical experiment in remaking ecosystems. Rendered even more urgent in a warming climate, Floating Coast is a profoundly resonant tale of the impact that human needs and ambitions have brought (and will continue to bring) to a finite planet.• Shortlisted for the The Pushkin House Book Prize 2020.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-08-25
Mått:137 x 206 x 30 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:448
Förlag:WW Norton & Co
ISBN:9780393358322
Utmärkelser:Winner of William Mills Prize 2020

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Bathsheba Demuth is an environmental historian at Brown University, specializing in the United States and Russia, and in the history of energy and past climates. She has lived in and studied Arctic communities across Eurasia and North America.

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"In Floating Coast, Bathsheba Demouth has written a brilliant hybrid book about one of the most fragile and forgotten of Anthropocene front-line territories, the Bering Strait. Uniting ecology, anthropology, reportage and more, this is a superb work of environmental history, often reminiscent to me of Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams in its combination of rigorous research, intense looking and listening, and its clear ethical vision."

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