Canadian History and Environment – serie
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15 produkter
Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011
Häftad, 2011
462 kr
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When Canada created a Dominion Parks Branch in 1911, it became the first country in the world to establish an agency devoted to managing its national parks. Over the past century this agency, now Parks Canada, has been at the centre of important debates about the place of nature in Canadian …
Historical GIS Research in Canada
Av Jennifer Bonnell, Marcel Fortin
Häftad, 2014
519 kr
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Fundamentally concerned with place, and our ability to understand human relationships with environment over time, Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) as a tool and a subject has direct bearing for the study of contemporary environmental issues and realities. To date, HGIS projects in …
Mining and Communities in Northern Canada
History, Politics, and Memory
Häftad, 2015
461 kr
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For indigenous communities throughout the globe, mining has been a historical forerunner of colonialism, introducing new, and often disruptive, settlement patterns and economic arrangements. Although indigenous communities may benefit from and adapt to the wage labour and training opportunities …
Canadian Countercultures and the Environment
Häftad, 2016
402 kr
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Studies of the radical environmental politics of the 1960s have tended to downplay the extent to which much of that countercultural intellectual and social ferment continued into the 1970s and 1980s. Canadian Countercultures and the Environment adds to our knowledge of this understudied period. …
Ice Blink
Navigating Northern Environmental History
Av Stephen Bocking, Brad Martin
Häftad, 2017
519 kr
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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 …
Moving Natures
Mobility and the Environment in Canadian History
Av Ben Bradley, Jay Young m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
402 kr
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Mobility - the movements of people, things, and ideas, as well as their associated cultural meanings - has been a key factor in shaping Canadians' perceptions of and interactions with their country. Approaching the burgeoning field of environmental history in Canada through the lens of mobility …
Animal Metropolis
Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada
Av Joanna Dean, Darcy Ingram m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
402 kr
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Animal Metropolis brings a Canadian perspective to the growing field of animal history, ranging across species and cities, from the beavers who engineered Stanley Park to the carthorses who shaped the city of Montreal. Some essays consider animals as spectacle: orca captivity in Vancouver, polar …
Border Flows
A Century of the Canadian-American Water Relationship
Av Lynne Heasley, Daniel Macfarlane
Häftad, 2016
402 kr
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Declining access to fresh water is one of the twenty-first century's most pressing environmental and human rights challenges, yet the struggle for water is not a new cause. The 8,800-kilometer border dividing Canada and the United States contains more than 20% of the world's total freshwater …
Environmental Activism on the Ground
Small Green and Indigenous Organizing
Av Jonathan Clapperton, Liza Piper
Häftad, 2019
447 kr
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Environmental Activism on the Ground draws upon a wide range of interdisciplinary scholarship to examine small scale, local environmental activism, paying particular attention to Indigenous experiences. It illuminates the questions that are central to the ongoing evolution of the environmental …
First Century of the International Joint Commission
Häftad, 2020
485 kr
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The International Joint Commission oversees and protects the shared waters of Canada and the United States. Created by the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909, it is one of the world's oldest international environmental bodies. A pioneering piece of transborder water governance, the IJC has been …
Traces of the Animal Past
Methodological Challenges in Animal History
Av Jennifer Bonnell, Sean Kheraj m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
875 kr
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Understanding the relationships between humans and animals is essential to a full understanding of both our present and our shared past. Across the humanities and social sciences, researchers have embraced the 'animal turn,' a multispecies approach to scholarship, with historians at the forefront …
Traces of the Animal Past
Methodological Challenges in Animal History
Av Jennifer Bonnell, Sean Kheraj m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
485 kr
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Understanding the relationships between humans and animals is essential to a full understanding of both our present and our shared past. Across the humanities and social sciences, researchers have embraced the 'animal turn,' a multispecies approach to scholarship, with historians at the forefront …
First Century of the International Joint Commission
Av Murray Clamen, Daniel Macfarlane
Inbunden, 2020
1060 kr
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The International Joint Commission oversees and protects the shared waters of Canada and the United States. Created by the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909, it is one of the world's oldest international environmental bodies. A pioneering piece of transborder water governance, the IJC has been …
Mountain Voices
The Mountain Legacy Project and a Century of Change in Western Canada
Av Eric Higgs, Eric Higgs m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1249 kr
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In Mountain Voices, alpinists, activists, artists, and mountain researchers share the ways Canadian mountains have impacted their lives. Each contributor brings a unique and fascinating perspective to the mountain landscape with short essays accompanied by a pair of photographs from the remarkable …
Mountain Voices
The Mountain Legacy Project and a Century of Change in Western Canada
Av Eric Higgs, Eric Higgs m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
579 kr
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In Mountain Voices, alpinists, activists, artists, and mountain researchers share the ways Canadian mountains have impacted their lives. Each contributor brings a unique and fascinating perspective to the mountain landscape with short essays accompanied by a pair of photographs from the remarkable …
