
The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada
Liza Piper(Author)
University of British Columbia Press
Will be published approx. on 10. March 2009
Book
Hardback
448 pages
978-0-7748-1532-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
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. - Stephen Bocking (Northern Review, Fall 2009)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Vancouver
Canada
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Illustrations
15 b&w photos, 5 maps, 9 charts, 10 tables
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
720 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7748-1532-1 (9780774815321)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Liza Piper is an associate professor of history at the University of Alberta.
Content
Foreword: The Nature of Industrialization / Graeme Wynn
Introduction: The Industrial Colonization of the Northwest
Part One
1 On the Edge: the 1920s
2 Railroad's End: Adaptation
3 Industrial Appetites
Part Two
4 An Ordered World
5 Sub / Terrain
6 Harnessing the Wet West
7 "Two Weights and Two Measures": Conservation and Conflict in the Fisheries
Part Three
8 Industrial Circuitry
9 The Hazards of Disassembly
Conclusion: The Frontiers of High-Energy Civilization
Appendices
Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Introduction: The Industrial Colonization of the Northwest
Part One
1 On the Edge: the 1920s
2 Railroad's End: Adaptation
3 Industrial Appetites
Part Two
4 An Ordered World
5 Sub / Terrain
6 Harnessing the Wet West
7 "Two Weights and Two Measures": Conservation and Conflict in the Fisheries
Part Three
8 Industrial Circuitry
9 The Hazards of Disassembly
Conclusion: The Frontiers of High-Energy Civilization
Appendices
Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index