Pemmican Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pemmican Empire write by George Colpitts. This book was released on 2015. Pemmican Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pemmican Empire explores the fascinating and little-known environmental history of the role of pemmican (bison fat) in the opening of the British-American West.
A Legacy of Exploitation
A Legacy of Exploitation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Legacy of Exploitation write by Susan Dianne Brophy. This book was released on 2022-05-15. A Legacy of Exploitation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Red River Colony was the Hudson’s Bay Company’s first planned settlement. As a settler-colonial project par excellence, it was designed to undercut Indigenous peoples’ “troublesome” autonomy and curtain the company’s dependency on their labour. In this critical re-evaluation of the history of the Red River Colony, Susan Dianne Brophy upends standard accounts by foregrounding Indigenous producers as a driving force of change. A Legacy of Exploitation challenges the enduring yet misleading fantasy of Canada as a glorious nation of adventurers, showing how autonomy can become distorted as complicity in processes of dispossession.
Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age
Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age write by Adam Sundberg. This book was released on 2022-01-27. Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Natural disasters repeatedly beset the Dutch Republic during the eighteenth century and coincided with environmental, political, economic, and social changes many characterized as decline. This book explores the connections between disasters and Dutch decline and uncovers lessons these eighteenth-century experiences offer for the present.
The Power of the Periphery
The Power of the Periphery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Power of the Periphery write by Peder Anker. This book was released on 2020-05-28. The Power of the Periphery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is the source of Norway's culture of environmental harmony in our troubled world? Exploring the role of Norwegian scholar-activists of the late twentieth century, Peder Anker examines how they portrayed their country as a place of environmental stability in a world filled with tension. In contrast with societies dirtied by the hot and cold wars of the twentieth century, Norway's power, they argued, lay in the pristine, ideal natural environment of the periphery. Globally, a beautiful Norway came to be contrasted with a polluted world and fashioned as an ecological microcosm for the creation of a better global macrocosm. In this innovative, interdisciplinary history, Anker explores the ways in which ecological concerns were imported via Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962, then to be exported from Norway back to the world at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Tunguska
Tunguska - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tunguska write by Andy Bruno. This book was released on 2022-06-30. Tunguska available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1908, thunderous blasts and blazing fires from the sky descended upon the desolate Tunguska territory of Siberia. The explosion knocked down an area of forest larger than London and was powerful enough to obliterate Manhattan. The mysterious nature of the event has prompted a wide array of speculation and investigation, including from those who suspected that aliens from outer space had been involved. In this deeply researched account of the Tunguska explosion and its legacy in Russian society, culture, and the environment, Andy Bruno recounts the intriguing history of the disaster and researchers' attempts to understand it. Taking readers inside the numerous expeditions and investigations that have long occupied scientists, he foregrounds the significance of mystery in environmental history. His engaging and accessible account shows how the explosion has shaped the treatment of the landscape, how uncertainty allowed unusual ideas to enter scientific conversations, and how cosmic disasters have influenced the past and might affect the future.
