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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| Sprache: | eng |
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Santa Barbara, Calif. u.a.
ABC-CLIO
2007
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| Schriftenreihe: | ABC-CLIO's nature and human societies series
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Tag hinzufügen | 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 |
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| 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 |