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

Sörlin, Sverker, (editor.). Jørgensen, Dolly, 1972- (editor.).

Summary: The North offers a valuable analytical framework that surpasses nation-states and transgresses political and historical borders. This volume develops rich explorations of the entanglements of environmental and technological history in the northern regions of the globe." --pub. desc.

Record details

ISBN: 9780774825726 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0774825723 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780774825719 (bound)
ISBN: 0774825715 (bound)
ISBN: 9780774825733 (pdf)
ISBN: 9780774825740 (epub)
Physical Description: print
307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Publisher: Vancouver ; UBC Press, [2013]
Copyright: ©2013

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-288) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Pt. 1 Exploring the North -- 1. "A Cruel Climate without Any Kind of Art": European Natural History and the Northern Nature of the Other Pacific 1740 -- 1840 / Ryan Tucker Jones -- 2. How Fossils Gave the First Hints of Climate Change: The Explorer A.E. Nordenskiold's Passion for Fossils and Northern Environmental History / Seija A. Niemi -- 3. Technological Heroes: Images of the Arctic in the Age of Polar Aviation / Marionne Cronin -- pt. 2 Colonizing the North -- 4. Mounds, Middens, and Social Landscapes: Viking-Norse Settlement of the North Atlantic, c. AD 850 -- 1250 / Jane Harrison -- 5. In Search of Instructive Models: The Russian State at a Crossroads to Conquering the North / Julia Lajus -- pt. 3 Working the North -- 6. Traversal Technology Transfer: The Transfer of Agricultural Knowledge between Peripheries in the North / Jan Kunnas -- 7. Sheep, the Market, and the Soil: Environmental Destruction in the Icelandic Highlands 1880-1910 / Helga Ogmundardottir -- 8. More Things on Heaven and Earth: Modernism and Reindeer in Chukotka and Alaska / Bathsheba Demuth -- 9. Touch of Frost: Gender, Class, Technology, and the Urban Environment in an Industrializing Nordic City / Simo Laakkonen -- pt. 4 Imagining the North -- 10. North Takes Place in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada / Lisa Cooke -- 11. Iceland and the North: An Idea of Belonging and Being Apart / Unnur Birna Karlsdottir.