| Description |
xxiii, 503 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm. |
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ABC-CLIO's nature and human societies series
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Nature and human societies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-477) and index. |
| Contents |
Series foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of figures -- pt. 1. Deep time -- 1. Ice retreat, vegetation advance -- 2. First peoples/faunal extinctions -- 3. Northern North America a thousand years ago -- pt. 2. Contact and its consequences -- 4. Between land, sea, and ice : Inuit, Beothuks, Aleuts, and newcomers -- 5. Natives, nature, and trade in the interior -- 6. Trade and the Huron -- 7. Plagues, preachers, and the transformation of indigenous societies -- pt. 3. Settlers in a wooden world -- 8. Possessing and (re)peopling the land -- 9. Domesticating the land -- 10. Exploiting the waters -- 11. Commercializing the forest -- 12. Fields of exertion -- pt. 4. Nature subdued -- 13. Harnessing black and white coal -- 14. New urbanism -- 15. Countrysides in transition -- 16. The assault on the forest -- 17. Industrial fishing -- 18. Into the hard rock : northern mining -- 19. Transforming the interior -- 20. Rushing north : gold, the Yukon, and Alaska -- |
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pt. 5. Nature transformed -- 21. Corridors of modernization -- 22. Power lines -- 23. Northern visions -- 24. Rapacious harvests 1 : from forests and mines -- 25. Rapacious harvests 2 : from land and sea -- 26. Urban mapping -- pt. 6. Reflections on the remaking of northern North America -- 27. Trade, technology, and the transformation of the environment -- 28. Hubris and hope -- Important people, events, and concepts -- Timeline -- References and further reading -- Index -- About the author. |
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Human ecology -- North America -- History.
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Human ecology. |
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Indians of North America. |
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History. |
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North America. |
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Human ecology -- Arctic regions -- History.
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Arctic Regions. |
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- North America -- History.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on. |
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Arctic regions -- History.
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Paleo-Indians -- North America.
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Paleo-Indians. |
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Paleo-Indians -- Arctic regions.
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Indians of North America -- History.
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Indians of North America -- Arctic regions -- History.
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North America -- Environmental conditions.
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Environmental conditions. |
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Arctic regions -- Environmental conditions.
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| ISBN |
1851094377 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9781851094370 hardcover alkaline paper |
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1851094423 ebook |
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9781851094424 ebook |
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