Ice blink : navigating northern environmental history

Bocking, Stephen Alexander, 1959- (editor.).

Record details

ISBN: 9781552388549
ISBN: 1552388549
Physical Description: print
vi, 526 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Calgary, Alberta, Canada : University of Calgary Press, [2017]
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Navigating Northern Environmental History / Stephen Booking -- pt. 1 Forming Northern Colonial Environments -- 2. Moving through the Margins: The "All-Canadian" Route to the Klondike and the Strange Experience of the Teslin Trail / Jonathan Peyton -- 3. Experimental State of Nature: Science and the Canadian Reindeer Project in the Interwar North / Andrew Stuhl -- 4. Shaped by the Land: An Envirotechnical History of a Canadian Bush Plane / Marionne Cronin -- 5. Many Tiny Traces: Antimodernism and Northern Exploration between the Wars / Tina Adcock -- pt. 2 Transformations and the Modern North -- 6. From Subsistence to Nutrition: The Canadian State's Involvement in Food and Diet in the North, 1900--1970 / Liza Piper -- 7. Hope in the Barrenlands: Northern Development and Sustainability's Canadian History / Tina Loo -- 8. Western Electric Turns North: Technicians and the Transformation of the Cold War Arctic / P. Whitney Lackenbauer -- pt. 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 / Hans M. Carlson -- 10. Imposing Territoriality: First Nation Land Claims and the Transformation of Human-Environment Relations in the Yukon / Paul Nadasdy -- 11. Ghost Towns and Zombie Mines: The Historical Dimensions of Mine Abandonment, Reclamation, and Redevelopment in the Canadian North / John Sandlos -- 12. Toxic Surprises: Contaminants and Knowledge in the Northern Environment / Stephen Bocking -- 13. Climate Anti-Politics: Scale, Locality, and Arctic Climate Change / Emilie Cameron -- Conclusion -- 14. Encounters in Northern Environmental History / Stephen Bocking.