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Canada and arctic North America : an environmental history
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- Creator
- Graeme Wynn
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, [2007]
- ©2007
- Series
- Physical Details
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- xxiii, 503 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
- ISBNs
- 1851094377, 9781851094370, 1851094423, 9781851094424
- OCLC
- ocm71350424
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-477) and index.
- Ice retreat, vegetation advance -- First peoples/faunal extinctions -- Northern North America a thousand years ago -- Between land, sea, and ice : Inuit, Beothuks, Aleuts, and newcomers -- Natives, nature, and trade in the interior -- Trade and the Huron -- Plagues, preachers, and the transformation of indigenous societies -- Possessing and (re)peopling the land -- Domesticating the land -- Exploiting the waters -- Commercializing the forest -- Fields of exertion -- Harnessing black and white coal -- New urbanism -- Countrysides in transition -- The assault on the forest -- Industrial fishing -- Into the hard rock : northern mining -- Transforming the interior -- Rushing north : gold, the Yukon, and Alaska -- Corridors of modernization -- Power lines -- Northern visions -- Rapacious harvests I : from forests and mines -- Rapacious harvests II : from land and sea -- Urban mapping -- Trade, technology, and the transformation of the environment -- Hubris and hope
Subjects
- Human ecology -- North America -- History.
- Human ecology -- Arctic regions -- History.
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- North America -- History.
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Arctic regions -- History.
- Paleo-Indians -- North America.
- Paleo-Indians -- Arctic regions.
- Indians of North America -- History.
- Indians of North America -- Arctic regions -- History.
- North America -- Environmental conditions.
- Arctic regions -- Environmental conditions.