An Environmental History of Canada
Author:   Laurel Sefton MacDowell
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
ISBN:  

9780774821025


Pages:   352
Publication Date:   25 July 2012
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Laurel Sefton MacDowell
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Dimensions:   Width: 20.30cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.800kg
ISBN:  

9780774821025


ISBN 10:   0774821027
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   25 July 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: Aboriginal Peoples and Settlers 1 Encountering a New Land 2 Settling the Land and Transforming the Wilderness Part 2: Industrialism, Reform, and Infrastructure 3 Early Cities and Urban Reform 4 The Conservation Movement 5 Mining Resources 6 Cars, Consumerism, and Suburbs Part 3: Harnessing Nature, Harming Nature 7 Changing Energy Regimes 8 Water 9 The Contested World of Food and Agriculture Part 4: The Environmental Era 10 The Environmental Movement and Public Policy 11 Parks and Wildlife 12 Coastal Fisheries 13 The North and Climate Change Conclusion Index

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MacDowell…mounts an impressive summary of how Canadian history has been rethought from an environment perspective over the last 40 years. She demonstrates this with a copiously illustrated and well-referenced exploration of the evolution of Canada’s landscape over millennia…a very accessible text for students and general readers, with excellent maps, illustrations, information boxes, and rich bibliographies for each chapter. Highly recommended. -- B. Osborne, Queen's University at Kingston * Choice *


MacDowell...mounts an impressive summary of how Canadian history has been rethought from an environment perspective over the last 40 years. She demonstrates this with a copiously illustrated and well-referenced exploration of the evolution of Canada's landscape over millennia...a very accessible text for students and general readers, with excellent maps, illustrations, information boxes, and rich bibliographies for each chapter. Highly recommended. -- B. Osborne, Queen's University at Kingston Choice


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Laurel Sefton MacDowell is a professor of history in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto.

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