The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada
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Liza Piper
About this book
Between 1821 and 1960, industrial economies took root in the North, transgressing political geographies and superseding the historically dominant fur trade. Imported southern scientists and sojourning labourers worked the Northwest, and its industrial history bears these newcomers’ imprint. This book reveals the history of human impact upon the North. It provides a baseline, grounded in historical and scientific evidence, for measuring subarctic environmental change. Liza Piper examines the sustainability of industrial economies, the value of resource exploitation in volatile ecosystems, and the human consequences of northern environmental change. She also addresses northern communities’ historical resistance to external resource development and their fight for survival in the face of intensifying environmental and economic pressures.
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Front Matter
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Contents
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Illustrations
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Foreword
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Acknowledgments
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Abbreviations
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Introduction: The Industrial Colonization of the Northwest
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On the Edge: The 1920s
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Railway’s End: Adaptation
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Industrial Appetites
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An Ordered World
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Sub/Terrain
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Harnessing the Wet West
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“Two Weights and Two Measures”: Conservation and Conflict in the Fisheries
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Industrial Circuitry
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The Hazards of Disassembly
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Conclusion: The Frontiers of High-Energy Civilization
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Shipping Seasons on the Mackenzie Basin Large Lakes
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Fish Populations and Production on the Large Lakes
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Glossary
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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