Northscapes: History, Technology, and the Making of Northern Environments - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0774825723 ISBN 13 : 9780774825726

Editeur : University of British Columbia Press, 2014

Synopsis

This book 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. 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

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Dolly Jørgensen is an environmental historian in the Department of Ecology and Environmental Science at Umeå University in Sweden. Sverker Sörlin is a professor of environmental history at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden.

Contributors: Lisa Cooke, Marionne Cronin, Bathsheba Demuth, Jane Harrison, Ryan Tucker Jones, Finn Arne Jørgensen, Arní Daníel Júlíusson, Unnur Birna Karlsdóttir, Jan Kunnas, Simo Laakkonen, Julia Lajus, Seija A. Niemi, Helga Ögmundardóttir, and Anna Gudrún Thórhallsdóttir

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of British Columbia Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0774825723
• ISBN 13: 9780774825726
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 324
• Éditeur: Jørgensen Dolly, Sörlin Sverker
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible