The industrial transformation of subarctic Canada [electronic resource] / Liza Piper ; foreword by Graeme Wynn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Piper, Liza, 1978-

Series:

Nature, history, society.

Nature, history, society, 1713-6687

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrialization--Canada, Northern--History.

Industrialization.

Environmental degradation--Canada, Northern--History.

Environmental degradation.

Natural resources--Canada, Northern.

Natural resources.

Industrial policy--Canada--History.

Industrial policy.

Canada, Northern--Environmental conditions.

Canada, Northern.

Canada, Northern--Economic conditions--20th century.

Winnipeg, Lake (Man.).

Athabasca, Lake (Sask. and Alta.).

Great Slave Lake (N.W.T.).

Great Bear Lake (N.W.T.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, [2009]

Summary:

Between 1821 and 1960, industrial economies took root in the North, transgressing political geographies and superseding the historically dominant fur trade. Imported southern scientists and sojourning labourers worked the Northwest, and its industrial history bears these newcomers' imprint. This book reveals the history of human impact upon the North. It provides a baseline, grounded in historical and scientific evidence, for measuring subarctic environmental change. Liza Piper examines the sustainability of industrial economies, the value of resource exploitation in volatile ecosystems, and the human consequences of northern environmental change. She also addresses northern communities' historical resistance to external resource development and their fight for survival in the face of intensifying environmental and economic pressures.

Contents:

Intro; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: The Industrial Colonization of the Northwest; Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Conclusion: The Frontiers of High-Energy Civilization; Appendices; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index; 1 On the Edge: The 1920's; 2 Railway's End: Adaptation; 3 Industrial Appetites; 4 An Ordered World; 5 Sub / Terrain; 6 Harnessing the Wet West; 7 "Two Weights and Two Measures": Conservation and Conflict in the Fisheries; 8 Industrial Circuitry; 9 The Hazards of Disassembly;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-74042-3

9786612740428

0-7748-1534-5