Northscapes (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
324
Utgivningsdatum
2014-07-01
Förlag
University of British Columbia Press
Medarbetare
Jørgensen, Dolly (ed.)
Illustrationer
10 b&w photos, 13 maps, 3 illustrations, 2 tables
Dimensioner
226 x 150 x 23 mm
Vikt
477 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780774825726

Northscapes

History, Technology, and the Making of Northern Environments

av Dolly Jrgensen, Sverker Srlin
Häftad,  Engelska, 2014-07-01
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This book argues that the unique environments of the North have been borne of the relationship between humans and nature. Approaching the topic through the lens of environmental history, the contributors examine a broad range of geographies, including those of Iceland and other islands in the Northern Atlantic, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the Pacific Northwest, and Canada, over a time span ranging from CE 800 to 2000. Northscapes is bound together by the intellectual project of investigating the North both as an imagined and mythologized space and as an environment shaped by human technology. The North offers a valuable analytical framework that surpasses nation-states and transgresses political and historical borders. This volume develops rich explorations of the entanglements of environmental and technological history in the northern regions of the globe
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Dolly Jrgensen, Sverker Srlin

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Dolly Jrgensen is an environmental historian in the Department of Ecology and Environmental Science at Ume University in Sweden. Sverker Srlin 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 Jrgensen, Arn Danel Jlusson, Unnur Birna Karlsdttir, Jan Kunnas, Simo Laakkonen, Julia Lajus, Seija A. Niemi, Helga gmundardttir, and Anna Gudrn Thrhallsdttir

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Introduction Making the Action Visible, Making Environments in Northern Landscapes / Dolly Jrgensen and Sverker Srlin Part 1: Exploring the North 1 A Cruel Climate without Any Kind of Art: European Natural History and the Northern Nature of the Other Pacific, 1740-1840 / Ryan Tucker Jones 2 How Fossils Gave the First Hints of Climate Change: The Explorer A.E. Nordenskilds Passion for Fossils and Northern Environmental History / Seija A. Niemi 3 Technological Heroes: Images of the Arctic in the Age of Polar Aviation / Marionne Cronin Part 2: Colonizing the North 4 Mounds, Middens, and Social Landscapes: Viking-Norse Settlement of the North Atlantic, c. AD 850-1250 / Jane Harrison 5 In Search of Instructive Models: The Russian State at a Crossroads to Conquering the North / Julia Lajus Part 3: Working the North 6 Traversal Technology Transfer: The Transfer of Agricultural Knowledge between Peripheries in the North / Jan Kunnas 7 The Sheep, the Market, and the Soil: Environmental Destruction in the Icelandic Highlands, 1880-1910 / Anna Gudrn Thrhallsdttir, rni Danel Jlusson, and Helga gmundardttir 8 More Things on Heaven and Earth: Modernism and Reindeer in Chukotka and Alaska / Bathsheba Demuth 9 A Touch of Frost: Gender, Class, Technology, and the Urban Environment in an Industrializing Nordic City / Simo Laakkonen Part 4: Imagining the North 10 North Takes Place in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada / Lisa Cooke 11 Iceland and the North: An Idea of Belonging and Being Apart / Unnur Birna Karlsdttir Epilogue The Networked North: Thinking about the Past, Present, and Future of Environmental Histories of the North / Finn Arne Jrgensen Selected Bibliography List of Contributors Index

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