Northscapes : history, technology, and the making of northern environments /

"The idea of North is a multivalent concept. It is geographical, but more than just Arctic; it is both an imagined space and a place of harsh challenges. These challenges resonate with each other across the northern world, shaping different areas of the North in many similar ways. Distinctive n...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sörlin, Sverker (Editor ), Jørgensen, Dolly, 1972- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Vancouver [British Columbia] ; Toronto [Ontario] : UBC Press, [2013]
Temas:
Human ecology > Arctic regions > History.
Technology > Arctic regions > History.
Technologie > Arctique > Histoire.
HISTORY > World.
Discoveries in geography
Ecology
Historiography
Human ecology
Technology
Arctic regions > Environmental conditions > History.
Arctic regions > Discovery and exploration > History.
Arctic regions > Historiography.
Arctic regions > Discovery and exploration.
Arctique > Conditions environnementales > Histoire.
Arctique > Découverte et exploration.
Arctique > Historiographie.
Arctic Regions
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "A cruel climate without any kind of art": European natural history and the northern nature of the other Pacific, 1740-1840 / Ryan Tucker Jones
  • How fossils gave the first hints of climate change: the explorer A.E. Nordenskiöld's passion for fossils and northern environmental history / Seija A. Niemi
  • Technological heroes: images of the arctic in the age of polar aviation / Marionne Cronin
  • Mounds, middens, and social landscapes: Viking-Norse settlement of the North Atlantic, c. AD 850-1250 / Jane Harrison
  • In search of instructive models: the Russian state at a crossroads to conquering the north / Julia Lajus
  • Traversal technology transfer: the transfer of agricultural knowledge between peripheries in the north / Jan Kunnas
  • The sheep, the market, and the soil: environmental destruction in the Icelandic Highlands, 1880-1910 / Anna Gudrún Thórhallsdóttir, Árni Daniel Júlíusson, and Helga Ögmundardóttir
  • More things on heaven and earth: modernism and reindeer in Chukotka and Alaska / Bathsheba Demuth
  • A touch of frost: gender, class, technology, and the urban environment in an industrializing Nordic City / Simo Laakkonen
  • North takes place in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada / Lisa Cooke
  • Iceland and the north: an idea of belonging and being apart / Unnur Birna Karlsdóttir
  • The networked north: thinking about the past, present, and future of environmental histories of the north / Finn Arne Jorgensen.

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