Canada and Arctic North America an environmental history

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...

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1. Verfasser: Wynn, Graeme (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Santa Barbara, Calif. u.a. ABC-CLIO 2007
Schriftenreihe:ABC-CLIO's nature and human societies series
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XXIII, 503 S
Ill., Kt., graph. Darst.
ISBN:1851094377
1-85109-437-7
9781851094370
978-1-85109-437-0