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Northscapes: History, Technology, and the Making of Northern Environments
. Ed(S): Jorgensen, Dolly; Sorlin, Sverker
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Description for Northscapes: History, Technology, and the Making of Northern Environments
hardcover. Northscapes examines concepts of North and the way in which different northern environments are shaped by the intersection of technology and human societies. Editor(s): Jorgensen, Dolly; Sorlin, Sverker. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: RGCM; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 604.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
UBC Press Canada
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774825719
SKU
V9780774825719
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Ref
99-1
About . Ed(S): Jorgensen, Dolly; Sorlin, Sverker
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, ... Read more
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