| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 307 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
"A cruel climate without any kind of art" : European natural history and the northern nature of the other Pacific, 1740-1840 / Ryan Tucker Jones -- How fossils gave the first hints of climate change : the explorer A.E. Nordenskiöld's passion for fossils and northern environmental history / Seija A. Niemi -- Technological heroes : images of the arctic in the age of polar aviation / Marionne Cronin -- Mounds, middens, and social landscapes : Viking-Norse settlement of the North Atlantic, c. AD 850-1250 / Jane Harrison -- In search of instructive models : the Russian state at a crossroads to conquering the north / Julia Lajus -- Traversal technology transfer : the transfer of agricultural knowledge between peripheries in the north / Jan Kunnas -- The sheep, the market, and the soil : environmental destruction in the Icelandic Highlands, 1880-1910 / Anna Gudrún Thórhallsdóttir, Árni Daniel Júlíusson, and Helga Ögmundardóttir -- More things on heaven and earth : modernism and reindeer in Chukotka and Alaska / Bathsheba Demuth -- A touch of frost : gender, class, technology, and the urban environment in an industrializing Nordic City / Simo Laakkonen -- North takes place in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada / Lisa Cooke -- Iceland and the north : an idea of belonging and being apart / Unnur Birna Karlsdóttir -- The networked north : thinking about the past, present, and future of environmental histories of the north / Finn Arne Jorgensen |
| Summary |
"The idea of North is a multivalent concept. It is geographical, but more than just Arctic; it is both an imagined space and a place of harsh challenges. These challenges resonate with each other across the northern world, shaping different areas of the North in many similar ways. Distinctive northern environments are created as humans adapt to climatic and geographic conditions while simultaneously adapting the landscapes to their own needs with technologies, trade, and social organization |
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This collection of essays argues that the unique environments of the North have been borne of the relationship between humans and nature. Approaching the topic through the lens of environmental history, the contributors examine a broad range of geographies, including those of Iceland and other islands in the Northern Atlantic, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the Pacific Northwest, and Canada, over a time span ranging from CE 800 to 2000. Northscapes is bound together by the intellectual project of investigating the North both as an imagined and mythologized space and as an environment shaped by human technology |
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The North offers a valuable analytical framework that surpasses nation-states and transgresses political and historical borders. This volume develops rich explorations of the entanglements of environmental and technological history in the northern regions of the globe."--Publisher description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Human ecology -- Arctic regions -- History
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Technology -- Arctic regions -- History
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HISTORY -- World.
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Discoveries in geography
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Ecology
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Historiography
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Human ecology
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Technology
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Arctic regions -- Environmental conditions -- History
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Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- History
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Arctic regions -- Historiography
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Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006958
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| Subject |
Arctic Regions
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jørgensen, Dolly, 1972- writer of introduction, editor.
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Sörlin, Sverker, writer of introduction, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780774825733 |
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0774825731 |
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9780774825740 |
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077482574X |
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0774825715 |
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9780774825719 |
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