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Author : Alan Andrew MacEachern
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780176441166
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Method and Meaning in Canadian Environmental History written by Alan Andrew MacEachern and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Freeland Duke
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
ISBN 13 : 1551303108
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Canadian Environmental History written by David Freeland Duke and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely work, this book showcases articles by leading Canadian and international historians interested in environmental action and policy, including Colin M. Coates, Ramsay Cooke, Ken Cruikshank, and Donald Worster.
Author : Laurel Sefton MacDowell
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774821043
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book An Environmental History of Canada written by Laurel Sefton MacDowell and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces how Canada’s colonial and national development contributed to modern environmental problems such as urban sprawl, the collapse of fisheries, and climate change Includes over 200 photographs, maps, figures, and sidebar discussions on key figures, concepts, and cases Offers concise definitions of environmental concepts Ties Canadian history to issues relevant to contemporary society Introduces students to a new, dynamic approach to the past Throughout history most people have associated northern North America with wilderness – with abundant fish and game, snow-capped mountains, and endless forest and prairie. Canada’s contemporary picture gallery, however, contains more disturbing images – deforested mountains, empty fisheries, and melting ice caps. Adopting both a chronological and thematic approach, Laurel MacDowell examines human interactions with the land, and the origins of our current environmental crisis, from first peoples to the Kyoto Protocol. This richly illustrated exploration of the past from an environmental perspective will change the way Canadians and others around the world think about – and look at – Canada.
Author : Laurel Sefton MacDowell
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774821035
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book An Environmental History of Canada written by Laurel Sefton MacDowell and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history most people have associated northern North America with wilderness – with abundant fish and game, snow-capped mountains, and endless forest and prairie. Canada’s contemporary picture gallery, however, contains more disturbing images – deforested mountains, empty fisheries, and melting ice caps. Adopting both a chronological and thematic approach, Laurel MacDowell examines human interactions with the land, and the origins of our current environmental crisis, from first peoples to the Kyoto Protocol. This richly illustrated exploration of the past from an environmental perspective will change the way Canadians and others around the world think about – and look at – Canada.
Author : Douglas Cazaux Sackman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9781444323627
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (236 download)
Download or read book A Companion to American Environmental History written by Douglas Cazaux Sackman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to American Environmental History gatherstogether a comprehensive collection of over 30 essays that examinethe evolving and diverse field of American environmental history. Provides a complete historiography of American environmentalhistory Brings the field up-to-date to reflect the latest trends andencourages new directions for the field Includes the work of path-breaking environmental historians,from the founders of the field, to contributions frominnovative young scholars Takes stock of the discipline through five topically themedparts, with essays ranging from American Indian EnvironmentalRelations to Cities and Suburbs
Author : J. Donald Hughes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745688446
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book What is Environmental History? written by J. Donald Hughes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is environmental history? It is a kind of history that seeks understanding of human beings as they have lived, worked, and thought in relationship to the rest of nature through the changes brought by time. In this new edition of his seminal student textbook, J. Donald Hughes provides a masterful overview of the thinkers, topics, and perspectives that have come to constitute the exciting discipline that is environmental history. He does so on a global scale, drawing together disparate trends from a rich variety of countries into a unified whole, illuminating trends and key themes in the process. Those already familiar with the discipline will find themselves invited to think about the subject in a new way. This new edition has been updated to reflect recent developments, trends, and new work in environmental history, as well as a brand new note on its possible future. Students and scholars new to environmental history will find the book both an indispensable guide and a rich source of inspiration for future work.
Author : Jocelyn Thorpe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317353560
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Methodological Challenges in Nature-Culture and Environmental History Research written by Jocelyn Thorpe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the challenges and possibilities of conducting cultural environmental history research today. Disciplinary commitments certainly influence the questions scholars ask and the ways they seek out answers, but some methodological challenges go beyond the boundaries of any one discipline. The book examines: how to account for the fact that humans are not the only actors in history yet dominate archival records; how to attend to the non-visual senses when traditional sources offer only a two-dimensional, non-sensory version of the past; how to decolonize research in and beyond the archives; and how effectively to use sources and means of communication made available in the digital age. This book will be a valuable resource for those interested in environmental history and politics, sustainable development and historical geography.
Author : Alan MacEachern
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228002850
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Miramichi Fire written by Alan MacEachern and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 7 October 1825, a massive forest fire swept through northeastern New Brunswick, devastating entire communities. When the smoke cleared, it was estimated that the fire had burned across six thousand square miles, one-fifth of the colony. The Miramichi Fire was the largest wildfire ever to occur within the British Empire, one of the largest in North American history, and the largest along the eastern seaboard. Yet despite the international attention and relief efforts it generated, and the ruin it left behind, the fire all but disappeared from public memory by the twentieth century. A masterwork in historical imagination, The Miramichi Fire vividly reconstructs nineteenth-century Canada's greatest natural disaster, meditating on how it was lost to history. First and foremost an environmental history, the book examines the fire in the context of the changing relationships between humans and nature in colonial British North America and New England, while also exploring social memory and the question of how history becomes established, warped, and forgotten. Alan MacEachern explains how the imprecise and conflicting early reports of the fire's range, along with the quick rebound of the forests and economy of New Brunswick, led commentators to believe by the early 1900s that the fire's destruction had been greatly exaggerated. As an exercise in digital history, this book takes advantage of the proliferation of online tools and sources in the twenty-first century to posit an entirely new reading of the past. Resurrecting one of Canada's most famous and yet unexamined natural disasters, The Miramichi Fire traverses a wide range of historical and scientific literatures to bring a more complete story into the light.
Author : Edward MacDonald
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773598731
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Time and a Place written by Edward MacDonald and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its long and well-documented history, Prince Edward Island makes a compelling case study for thousands of years of human interaction with a specific ecosystem. The pastoral landscapes, red sandstone cliffs, and small fishing villages of Canada’s “garden province” are appealing because they appear timeless, but they are as culturally constructed as they are shaped by the ebb and flow of the tides. Bringing together experts from a multitude of disciplines, the essays in Time and a Place explore the island’s marine and terrestrial environment from its prehistory to its recent past. Beginning with PEI’s history as a blank slate – a land scraped by ice and then surrounded by rising seas – this mosaic of essays documents the arrival of flora, fauna, and humans, and the different ways these inhabitants have lived in this place over time. The collection offers policy insights for the province while also informing broader questions about the value of islands and other geographically bounded spaces for the study of environmental history and the crafting of global sustainability. Putting PEI at the forefront of Canadian environmental history, Time and a Place is a remarkable accomplishment that will be eagerly received and read by historians, geographers, scholars of Canadian and island studies, and environmentalists.
Author : Margaret Conrad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108498469
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book A Concise History of Canada written by Margaret Conrad and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of Margaret Conrad's lucid account of the diverse, complex, and often contested nation-state of Canada.
Author : Christopher Kirkey
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030865746
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Construction of Canadian Identity from Abroad written by Christopher Kirkey and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-20 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migration and the impact that immigrants have on Canada is and always has been central to a robust understanding of Canadian identity. However, despite claims that “the world needs more Canada,” Canadians, their governments, and scholars pay much less attention to the estimated 3 million Canadian expatriates who live elsewhere. The Construction of Canadian Identity from Abroad features Canadian scholars who live and work outside Canada (or have recently returned to Canada) and who write and think deeply about identity construction. What happens when that Canadian is a scholar whose teaching, research and scholarship, professional development, and/or community engagement focuses directly on Canada? How does being abroad affect how we interpret Canada? In short, in what ways does “externality” affect how Canadian expat scholars intellectually approach, construct, and identify with Canada? This engaging volume is ideal for university students, scholars, government officials, and the general public.
Author : Asa McKercher
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774835311
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Mike’s World written by Asa McKercher and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although fifty years have passed since Lester Pearson stepped down as prime minister, he still influences debates about Canada’s role in the world. Mike’s World explores the myths surrounding Pearsonianism to explain why he remains such a touchstone for understanding Canadian foreign policy. Leading scholars dig deeply into his diplomatic and political career, especially during the 1960s and his tenure as prime minister. Situating Pearson within his times and using him as a lens through which to analyze Canadians’ views of global affairs, this nuanced collection wrestles with the contradictions of Pearson and Pearsonianism and, ultimately, with the resulting myths surrounding Canada’s role in the world.
Author : Edward Jones-Imhotep
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774837268
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Made Modern written by Edward Jones-Imhotep and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science and technology have shaped not only economic empires and industrial landscapes, but also the identities, anxieties, and understandings of people living in modern times. Made Modern draws together leading scholars from a wide range of fields who write on topics ranging from exploration and infrastructure to the occult sciences and communications. The contributors use histories of science and technology to enrich our understanding of Canadian history and of Canada’s place in a transnational modern world. The first major collection of its kind in thirty years, this book explores the place of science and technology in shaping Canadians’ experience of themselves and their place in the modern world.
Author : Shannon Stunden Bower
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 077485992X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Wet Prairie written by Shannon Stunden Bower and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-06-29 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canadian prairies are often envisioned as dry, windswept fields; however, much of southern Manitoba is not arid plain but wet prairie, poorly drained land subject to frequent flooding. Shannon Stunden Bower brings to light the complexities of surface-water management in Manitoba, from early artificial drainage efforts to late-twentieth-century attempts at watershed management. She engages scholarship on the state, liberalism, and bioregionalism in order to probe the connections between human and environmental change in the wet prairie. This account of an overlooked aspect of the region’s environmental history reveals how the biophysical nature of southern Manitoba has been an important factor in the formation of Manitoba society and the provincial state.
Author : Char Miller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136755241
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book The Atlas of U.S. and Canadian Environmental History written by Char Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This visually dynamic historical atlas chronologically covers American environmental history through the use of four-color maps, photos, and diagrams, and in written entries from well known scholars.Organized into seven categories, each chapter covers: agriculture * wildlife and forestry * land use and management * technology and industry * polluti
Author : Sundar Sarukkai
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351549847
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Science and Narratives of Nature written by Sundar Sarukkai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discourse and practice of science are deeply connected to explicit and implicit narratives of nature. However, nature has been understood in diverse ways by cultures across the world. Could these different views of nature generate the possibility of alternate views on science? Part of the innovative series Science and Technology Studies, this volume looks at different conceptualizations of nature and the manner in which they structure the practice of the sciences. The essays draw upon philosophy, history, sociology, religion, feminism, mathematics and cultural studies, and establish a dialogue between cultures through a multi-disciplinary exploration of science. With contributions from major scholars in the field, this volume will deeply interest scholars and students of science and technology studies; sociology, history and philosophy of science; as also environmental studies.
Author : Michele Byers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780739124710
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (247 download)
Download or read book The CSI Effect written by Michele Byers and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CSI has been heralded in many spheres of public discourse as a televisual revolution, its effects on the public unprecedented. The CSI Effect: Television, Crime, and Governance demonstrates that CSI's appeal cannot be disentangled from either its production as a televisual text or the broader discourses and practices that circulate within our social landscape. This interdisciplinary collection bridges the gap between the study of media, particularly popular culture media, and the study of crime. The contributors consider the points of intersection between these very different realms of scholarship and in so doing foster the development of a new set of theoretical languages in which the mediated spectacle of crime and criminalization can be carefully considered. This timely and groundbreaking volume is bound to intrigue both scholars and CSI enthusiasts alike.
