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The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada
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Liza Piper
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English
Published/Copyright:
2010
About this book
This award-winning history of how industrial economies have come to dominate the North provides revealing context on today's environmental changes.
A revealing history of human impact in the Canadian North, this book focuses on the causes and consequences of the industries that replaced the fur trade.
Author / Editor information
Liza Piper is an associate professor of history at the University of Alberta.
Reviews
Stephen Bocking:
Liza Piper captures with detail and insight an essential episode in northern environmental history … in telling this story Piper provides an immensely valuable perspective not just on northern history, but on the practice of environmental history itself … she also exhibits an impressive sensitivity for the meanings embedded in both action and language. But where she especially excels is in situating this history in a specific place, and in invoking its material basis in living organisms: lakes and rivers, water and ice, earth and fire. This history has dirt under its fingernails.
Liza Piper captures with detail and insight an essential episode in northern environmental history … in telling this story Piper provides an immensely valuable perspective not just on northern history, but on the practice of environmental history itself … she also exhibits an impressive sensitivity for the meanings embedded in both action and language. But where she especially excels is in situating this history in a specific place, and in invoking its material basis in living organisms: lakes and rivers, water and ice, earth and fire. This history has dirt under its fingernails.
From the Foreword by Graeme Wynn:
Liza Piper's book couples an impressive command of archival sources and empirical detail with an unusually diverse range of scholarship, and demonstrates a creative intelligence that ultimately brings readers to think about the meanings embedded in language, metaphor, and imagination.
Ken Coates, University of Waterloo:
[This book] makes a very significant contribution to the field, both by demonstrating to environmental historians that Northern topics are of broader interest and by providing Northern historians with an impressively detailed illustration of the importance of environmental perspectives.
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
January 1, 2010
eBook ISBN:
9780774815345
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
448
Other:
15 b&w photos, 5 maps, 9 charts, 10 tables
eBook ISBN:
9780774815345
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
