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Canada and arctic North America : an environmental history / Graeme Wynn.
- Title
- Canada and arctic North America : an environmental history / Graeme Wynn.
- Author
- Wynn, Graeme, 1946-
- Publication
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Description
- xxiii, 503 p. : ill., maps; 27 cm.
- Summary
- "Between the arrival of the first humans tens of thousands of years ago and the activities of mining and logging companies in the present, the environment of the North American Arctic has been shaped by people and their activities. Canada and Arctic North America is the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary environmental history of Canada - exploring the complex interplay between human societies and northern North America, from the Aleutian Islands to the Grand Banks, and from the Great Lakes to the Arctic Islands."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- ABC-CLIO's nature and human societies series
- Uniform Title
- Nature and human societies
- Subjects
- Geschichte
- History
- Arctic regions > Environmental conditions
- North America > Environmental conditions
- Indians of North America > Arctic regions > History
- Indians of North America > History
- Paleo-Indians > Arctic regions
- Paleo-Indians > North America
- Nature > Effect of human beings on > Arctic regions > History
- Nature > Effect of human beings on > North America > History
- Human ecology > Arctic regions > History
- Human ecology > North America > History
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 443-477) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Ice retreat, vegetation advance -- First peoples/faunal extinctions -- Northern North America a thousand years ago -- Between land, sea, and ice : Inuit, Beothuks, Aleuts, and newcomers -- Natives, nature, and trade in the interior -- Trade and the Huron -- Plagues, preachers, and the transformation of indigenous societies -- Possessing and (re)peopling the land -- Domesticating the land -- Exploiting the waters -- Commercializing the forest -- Fields of exertion -- Harnessing black and white coal -- New urbanism -- Countrysides in transition -- The assault on the forest -- Industrial fishing -- Into the hard rock : northern mining -- Transforming the interior -- Rushing north : gold, the Yukon, and Alaska -- Corridors of modernization -- Power lines -- Northern visions -- Rapacious harvests I : from forests and mines -- Rapacious harvests II : from land and sea -- Urban mapping -- Trade, technology, and the transformation of the environment -- Hubris and hope.
- ISBN
- 1851094377 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9781851094370 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1851094423 (ebook)
- 9781851094424 (ebook)
- LCCN
- ^^2006029751
- OCLC
- 71350424
- SCSB-10582187
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library