Northscapes

Dolly Jørgensen is an environmental historian in the Department of Ecology and Environmental Science at Umeå University in Sweden. Sverker Sörlin is a professor of environmental history at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden.Contributors: Lisa Cooke, Marionne Cronin, Bathsheba Demuth, Jane Harrison, Ryan Tucker Jones, Finn Arne Jørgensen, Arní Daníel Júlíusson, Unnur Birna Karlsdóttir, Jan Kunnas, Simo Laakkonen, Julia Lajus, Seija A. Niemi, Helga Ögmundardóttir, and Anna Gudrún Thórhallsdóttir

• Introduction   Making the Action Visible, Making Environments in Northern Landscapes / Dolly Jørgensen and Sverker SörlinPart 1: Exploring the North1 "A Cruel Climate without Any Kind of Art": European Natural History and the Northern Nature of the Other Pacific, 1740-1840 / Ryan Tucker Jones2 How Fossils Gave the First Hints of Climate Change: The Explorer A.E. Nordenskiöld's Passion for Fossils and Northern Environmental History / Seija A. Niemi3 Technological Heroes: Images of the Arctic in the Age of Polar Aviation / Marionne CroninPart 2: Colonizing the North4 Mounds, Middens, and Social Landscapes: Viking-Norse Settlement of the North Atlantic, c. AD 850-1250 / Jane Harrison5 In Search of Instructive Models: The Russian State at a Crossroads to Conquering the North / Julia LajusPart 3: Working the North6 Traversal Technology Transfer: The Transfer of Agricultural Knowledge between Peripheries in the North / Jan Kunnas7 The Sheep, the Market, and the Soil: Environmental Destruction in the Icelandic Highlands, 1880-1910 / Anna Gudrún Thórhallsdóttir, Árni Daníel Júlíusson, and Helga Ögmundardóttir8 More Things on Heaven and Earth: Modernism and Reindeer in Chukotka and Alaska / Bathsheba Demuth9 A Touch of Frost: Gender, Class, Technology, and the Urban Environment in an Industrializing Nordic City / Simo LaakkonenPart 4: Imagining the North10 North Takes Place in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada / Lisa Cooke11 Iceland and the North: An Idea of Belonging and Being Apart / Unnur Birna KarlsdóttirEpilogue  The Networked North: Thinking about the Past, Present, and Future of Environmental Histories of the North / Finn Arne JørgensenSelected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex