Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

Between 1821 and 1960, industrial economies took root in the North, transgressing political geographies and superseding the historically dominant fur trade. Imported southern scientists and sojourning labourers worked the Northwest, and its industrial history bears these newcomers' imprint. This book reveals the history of human impact upon the North. It provides a baseline, grounded in historical and scientific evidence, for measuring subarctic environmental change. Liza Piper examines the sustainability of industrial economies, the value of resource exploitation in volatile ecosystems, and the human consequences of northern environmental change. She also addresses northern communities' historical resistance to external resource development and their fight for survival in the face of intensifying environmental and economic pressures.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-01-01
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:680 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Nature | History | Society
Antal sidor:448
Förlag:University of British Columbia Press
ISBN:9780774815338
Utmärkelser:Winner of Canadian Historical Association Clio Prize, Prairie Region 2010

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Mer om författaren

Liza Piper is an associate professor of history at the University of Alberta.

Recensioner i media

Liza Piper captures with detail and insight an essential episode in northern environmental history … in telling this story Piper provides an immensely valuable perspective not just on northern history, but on the practice of environmental history itself … she also exhibits an impressive sensitivity for the meanings embedded in both action and language. But where she especially excels is in situating this history in a specific place, and in invoking its material basis in living organisms: lakes and rivers, water and ice, earth and fire. This history has dirt under its fingernails. - Stephen Bocking (Northern Review, Fall 2009)

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword: The Nature of Industrialization / Graeme WynnIntroduction: The Industrial Colonization of the NorthwestPart One1 On the Edge: the 1920s2 Railroad's End: Adaptation3 Industrial AppetitesPart Two4 An Ordered World5 Sub / Terrain6 Harnessing the Wet West7 "Two Weights and Two Measures": Conservation and Conflict in the FisheriesPart Three8 Industrial Circuitry9 The Hazards of DisassemblyConclusion: The Frontiers of High-Energy CivilizationAppendicesGlossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index