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Ice Blink.
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 i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Calgary :
University of Calgary Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Canadian history and environment series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Series Page; Full Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1: Navigating Northern Environmental History; Part 1: Forming Northern Colonial Environments; 2: Moving through the Margins:The "All-Canadian" Route tothe Klondike and the StrangeExperience of the Teslin Trail; 3: The Experimental State of Nature: Science and the Canadian Reindeer Project in the Interwar North; 4: Shaped by the Land: An Envirotechnical History of a Canadian Bush Plane; 5: Many Tiny Traces: Antimodernism and Northern Exploration Between the Wars; Part 2: Transformations and the Modern North.
- 6: From Subsistence to Nutrition: The Canadian State's Involvement in Food and Diet in the North,1900-19707: Hope in the Barrenlands: Northern Development and Sustainability's Canadian History; 8: Western Electric Turns North: Technicians and the Transformation of the Cold War Arctic; Part 3: Environmental History and the Contemporary North; 9: "That's the Place Where I Was Born": History, Narrative Ecology, and Politics in Canada's North; 10: Imposing Territoriality: First Nation Land Claims and the Transformation of Human-Environment Relations in the Yukon.
- 11: Ghost Towns and Zombie Mines: The Historical Dimensions of Mine Abandonment, Reclamation, and Redevelopment in the Canadian North12: Toxic Surprises: Contaminants and Knowledgein the Northern Environment; 13: Climate Anti-Politics: Scale, Locality, and Arctic Climate Change; Conclusion; 14: Encounters in Northern Environmental History; Contributors; Index.