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This comprehensive treatment of the environmental history of
northern North America offers a compelling account of the complex
encounters of people, technology, culture, and ecology that shaped
modern-day Canada and Alaska. From the arrival of the earliest
humans to the very latest scientific controversies, the
environmental history of Canada and Arctic North America is
dramatic, diverse, and crucial for the very survival of the human
race. Packed with key facts and analysis, this expert guide
explores the complex interplay between human societies and the
environment from the Aleutian Islands to the Grand Banks and from
the Great Lakes to the Arctic Islands How has the challenging
environment of America's most northerly regions—with some areas
still dominated by native peoples—helped shape politics and
trade? What have been the consequences of European contact with
this region and its indigenous inhabitants? How did natives and
newcomers cope with, and change this vast and forbidding territory?
Can a perspective on the past help us in grappling with the
conflict between oil exploration and wilderness preservation on the
North Slope of Alaska? Part of ABC-CLIO's Nature and Human
Societies series, this unique work charts the region's
environmental history from prehistory to modern times and is
essential reading for students and experts alike.
History in BC grows profusely and luxuriantly, but with odd
undergrowth," observed historian J.M.S. Careless many years ago.
This claim is fully borne out by this impressive anthology of some
of the province's most distinguished historians, geographers, and
writers gleaned from over forty years of British Columbia's leading
scholarly journal, "BC Studies."
This collection includes fascinating articles on the Fraser Canyon
by Cole Harris; on Fort Simpson, Metlakatla, and Port Essington by
Daniel Clayton; on Victoria's early Chinese community by Patrick
Dunae and others; on the eviction of Kitsilano and Squamish people
from Vancouver and Stanley Park by Jean Barman; on early home
design styles in Vancouver by Deryck Holdsworth; on the failed
utopias of Wallachin and Sointula by Nelson Riis and Mikko Saikku;
on life in a 1970s logging camp by Peter Harrison; on fly-fishing
and dispossession at Penask Lake by Michael Thoms; and on the
perennial lonesome prospector by Megan Davies.
The overarching theme is provided by George Bowering in his classic
essay, "Home Away," concerning the search for a home on the West
Coast--a new one for settlers and an old one for indigenous
peoples.
Spanning the colonial, postcolonial, and postapartheid eras, these
historical and locally specific case studies analyze and engage
vernacular, activist, and scholarly efforts to mitigate
social-environmental inequity. This book highlights the ways poor
and vulnerable people in South Africa, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe have
mobilized against the structural and political forces that deny
them a healthy and sustainable environment. Spanning the colonial,
postcolonial, and postapartheid eras, these studies engage
vernacular, activist, and scholarly efforts to mitigate
social-environmental inequity. Some chapters track the genealogies
of contemporary activism, while others introduce positions, actors,
and thinkers not previously identified with environmental justice.
Addressing health, economic opportunity, agricultural policy, and
food security, the chapters in this book explore a range of issues
and ways of thinking about harm to people and their ecologies.
Because environmental justice is often understood as a contemporary
phenomenon framed around North American examples, these fresh case
studies will enrich both southern African history and global
environmental studies. Environment, Power, and Justice expands
conceptions of environmental justice and reveals discourses and
dynamics that advance both scholarship and social change.
Contributors: Christopher Conz Marc Epprecht Mary Galvin Sarah Ives
Admire Mseba Muchaparara Musemwa Matthew A. Schnurr Cherryl Walker
Spanning the colonial, postcolonial, and postapartheid eras, these
historical and locally specific case studies analyze and engage
vernacular, activist, and scholarly efforts to mitigate
social-environmental inequity. This book highlights the ways poor
and vulnerable people in South Africa, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe have
mobilized against the structural and political forces that deny
them a healthy and sustainable environment. Spanning the colonial,
postcolonial, and postapartheid eras, these studies engage
vernacular, activist, and scholarly efforts to mitigate
social-environmental inequity. Some chapters track the genealogies
of contemporary activism, while others introduce positions, actors,
and thinkers not previously identified with environmental justice.
Addressing health, economic opportunity, agricultural policy, and
food security, the chapters in this book explore a range of issues
and ways of thinking about harm to people and their ecologies.
Because environmental justice is often understood as a contemporary
phenomenon framed around North American examples, these fresh case
studies will enrich both southern African history and global
environmental studies. Environment, Power, and Justice expands
conceptions of environmental justice and reveals discourses and
dynamics that advance both scholarship and social change.
Contributors: Christopher Conz Marc Epprecht Mary Galvin Sarah Ives
Admire Mseba Muchaparara Musemwa Matthew A. Schnurr Cherryl Walker
The Government of Natural Resources explores government scientific
activity in Quebec from Confederation until the Second World War.
Scientific and technical personnel are an often quiet presence
within the state, but they play an integral role. By tracing the
history of geology, forestry, fishery, and agronomy services,
Stephane Castonguay reveals how the exploitation of natural
resources became a tool of government. As it shaped territorial and
environmental transformations, scientific activity contributed to
state formation and expanded administrative capacity. This
thoughtful reconceptualization of resource development reaches well
beyond provincial borders, changing the way we think of science and
state power.
The Government of Natural Resources explores government scientific
activity in Quebec from Confederation until the Second World War.
Scientific and technical personnel are an often quiet presence
within the state, but they play an integral role. By tracing the
history of geology, forestry, fishery, and agronomy services,
Stéphane Castonguay reveals how the exploitation of natural
resources became a tool of government. As it shaped territorial and
environmental transformations, scientific activity contributed to
state formation and expanded administrative capacity. This
thoughtful reconceptualization of resource development reaches well
beyond provincial borders, changing the way we think of science and
state power.
Intended to delight and provoke, these short, beautifully crafted
essays, enlivened with photos and illustrations, explore how humans
have engaged with the Canadian environment and what those
interactions say about the nature of Canada. Tracing a path from
the Ice Age to the Anthropocene, some of the foremost stars in the
field of environmental history reflect on how we, as a nation, have
idolized and found inspiration in nature even as fishers, fur
traders, farmers, foresters, miners, and city planners have
commodified it or tried to tame it. Their insights are just what we
need as Canada attempts to reconcile the opposing goals of
prosperity and preservation.
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