Consuming Canada : readings in environmental history

Gaffield, Chad, 1951- (Added Author). Gaffield, Pam. (Added Author).

Summary: Consuming Canada introduces readers to the field of environmental history. This disipline examines the interactions between human beings and the environment rather than viewing people as the sole actors in history. By focusing on studies of the interaction between humans and nature, the readings illustrate the connectedness of all components of the biosphere. The book begins with an overview of the theory and method of environmental history and then examines topics such as pollution and degradation, conservation and regulation, wildlife and resources, and the relationship of the Canadian peoples to the environment at various stages of our history.

Record details

ISBN: 0773054499 :
Physical Description: print
ix, 387 p. : map ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Mississauga, Ont. : Copp Clark, c1995.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction : 1. Theory and method -- Wilderness and culture / John Wadland -- Doing environmental history / Donald Worster -- Gender and environmental history / Carolyn Merchant -- The nature and utility of traditional ecological knowledge / Milton M.R. Freeman - 2. Biology, culture, and imperialism -- Ecological imperialism : the overseas migration of western Europeans as a biological phenomenon / Alfred W. Crosby -- 1492 and all that : making a garden out of wilderness / Ramsay Cook -- Aboriginal resource use in the nineteenth century in the great plains on modern Canada / Irene M. Spry - 3. Industrialization and the spread of settlement -- Three ideas of nature in Canada, 1893-1914 / George Altmeyer -- "The vexed question of sawdust" : river pollution in Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick / Gilbert Allardyce -- The beginnings of a movement : the Montreal congress and its aftermath, 1880-1896 / Peter Gillis and Thomas R. Roach -- Conservation planning and urban planning : the Canadian Commission of Conservation in historical perspective / Alan F.J. Artibise and Gilbert A. Stelter -- The image of the state / H.V. Nelles --