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Author:   David Freeland Duke
Publisher:   Canadian Scholars
Imprint:   Canadian Scholars
Dimensions:   Width: 17.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.740kg
ISBN:  

9781551303109

ISBN 10:   1551303108
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   30 October 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Preface Part I: Introduction To Environmental History Chapter One: Doing Environmental History Donald Worster Chapter Two: The Uses of Environmental History William Cronon Chapter Three: Eve: Nature and Narrative Carolyn Merchant Chapter Four: A Death-Defying Attempt to Articulate a Coherent Definition of Environmental History Douglas R. Weiner Part II: Pre-Contact Environmental History Chapter Five: The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of the Americas in 1492 William M. Denevan Chapter Six: Fire Shepard Krech Part III: Biology And Imperialism In North American Environmental History Chapter Seven: Ecological Imperialism: The Overseas Migration of Western Europeans as a Biological Phenomenon Alfred W. Crosby Chapter Eight: Making a Garden out of a Wilderness Ramsay Cook Chapter Nine: Averting Disaster: The Hudson's Bay Company and Smallpox in Western Canada during the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries Paul Hackett Part IV: Pre-Industrial Resources And The Changing Culture Of Nature Chapter Ten: Marketing Wildlife: The Hudson's Bay Company and the Pacific Northwest, 1821-1849 Lorne Hammond Chapter Eleven: Like """"The Thames towards Putney"""": The Appropriation of Landscape in Lower Canada Colin M. Coates Chapter Twelve: Killing the Canadian Buffalo, 1821-1881 William A. Dobak Part V: Industrialization Chapter Thirteen: Rivers of Sawdust: The Battle over Industrial Pollution in Canada, 1865-1903R. Peter Gillis Chapter Fourteen: Blighted Areas and Obnoxious Industries: Constructing Environmental Inequality on an Industrial Waterfront, Hamilton, Ontario, 1890-1960 Ken Cruikshank and Nancy B. Bouchier Part VI: Sustainability And Conservation Chapter Fifteen: """"Let Us Heed the Voice of Youth"""": Laundry Detergents, Phosphates, and the Emergence of the Environmental Movement in Ontario Jennifer Read Chapter Sixteen: Where the Scientists Roam: Ecology, Management, and Bison in Northern Canada John Sandlos Chapter Seventeen: Changing Ecologies: Preservation in Four National Parks, 1935-1965 Alan MacEachern"

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The material selected represents some of the most current Canadian contributions in environmental history. Its availability to students in a new reader is most welcome. -- George Colpitts, University of Calgary

Author Information

Dr. David Freeland Duke is an assistant professor and environmental historian in the Department of History and Classics at Acadia University.

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