Canadians and Their Natural Environment
Oxford University Press, Canada (Verlag)
978-0-19-902546-6 (ISBN)
The book is a history of how people in the territory that is now Canada have interacted with all that is non-human since the last ice age. It takes as its jumping off point the idea that the primary human interest in nature is getting the resources needed to survive: in other words, food and shelter. So concentrating on the ways in which societies in what we now call Canada have shaped access to nature in order to achieve subsistence (or survival), and the things that flow from that allows us to understand much of the human-nature relationship in this place over time. The book starts with the retreat of the glaciers and the assembling of the natural environment of Canada. It then looks at the means of survival and the different impacts on the land of Indigenous people and of pre-industrial European colonizing societies. Industrial capitalism in the later nineteenth century encouraged a new ordering and control of nature, while science both facilitated and challenged this and its effects. The latter half of the book examines the results: a massive re-engineering of nature, the development of new chemicals and materials and their presence in the environment as waste and pollution, the conservation, preservation and environmental movements, and the attempts, up to our present-day and including the crisis of climate change, to reconcile economic development with environmental protection.
The book is written in a lively style that will be accessible to undergraduate students. It features a further reading section that both students and scholars new to the field will find useful and over 65 maps and illustrations. It is the first such book to propose an overall framework for understanding Canadian environmental history.
James Murton is Associate Professor of History at Nipissing University and a member of the Program in Environmental Science/Studies. He is part of the executive committee and the editorial board at the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE) and an Associate of the Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University.
Acknowledgments
A Brief Word on Dates and Dating
Introduction
1: Living in Deep Time: the Environmental Context of Northern North America
2: The Turtle Island System: Indigenous Means of Survival
3: "Closing up the Seams of Pangaea": Colonization and Its Consequences
4: Agriculture and Environmental Change in the Wendat Confederacy, Canada, and Acadia
5: Markets, Science, and the Canadian Environment: Knowing and Shaping Nature, 1660-1850
6: The Environment of Industry
7: The Conservation Era
8: High Modernism and the Experience of Nature in Twentieth-Century Canada
9: Living Through Chemistry: Toxins, Bodies, and Ecologies
10: Survival: the Sixties and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism
11: Sustainable Development? Environmentalism at the End of the Twentieth Century
12: How Much Longer We Can Stand: Climate Change and the Environment in 21st Century
Canada
Conclusion
Notes
Further Reading
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 16.06.2021 |
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Zusatzinfo | 59 black and white illustrations |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 157 x 236 mm |
Gewicht | 10 g |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-902546-0 / 0199025460 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-902546-6 / 9780199025466 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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