Colin MacMillan Coates (Editor)
Wynn, Graeme (Editor)
Intended to delight and provoke, these short, beautifully crafted essays, enlivened with photos and illustrations, explore how humans have engaged with the Canadian environment and what those interactions say about the nature of Canada. Tracing a path from the Ice Age to the Anthropocene, some of the foremost stars in the field of environmental history reflect on how we, as a nation, have idolized and found inspiration in nature even as fishers, fur traders, farmers, foresters, miners, and city planners have commodified it or tried to tame it. They also travel lesser known routes, revealing how Indigenous people listened to glaciers and what they have to tell us; and how even the nature we can't see - the smallest of pathogens - has served the interests of some while threatening the very existence of others. The Nature of Canada will make you think differently not only about Canada and its past but quite possibly about Canada and its future. Its insights are just what we need as Canada attempts to reconcile the opposing goals of prosperity and preservation.
...MoreReview Andrea Olive (2020) Review of "The nature of Canada". Environmental History (pp. 400-402).
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Lewis Dartnell;
(2019)
Origins: how Earth's history shaped human history
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Javier Aracil;
(September 2018)
Making It Useful Even When It Seems to Be Useless
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Killian Colm Quigley;
(2016)
Nature's Spectacles: Ornament, Performance, and Natural History in the Long Eighteenth Century
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Donald Worster;
(2018)
Shrinking the Earth : The rise and decline of natural abundance
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Reinaldo Funes Monzote;
(2019)
Nuestro viaje a la luna : la idea de la transformación de la naturaleza en Cuba durante la Guerra Fría (Our trip to the moon: the idea of the transformation of nature in Cuba during the Cold War)
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Maria Paula Diogo;
Ivo Louro;
Davide Scarso;
(2017)
Uncanny Nature: Why the concept of Anthropocene is relevant for historians of technology
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Brenda Parlee;
Ken J. Caine;
(2018)
When the caribou do not come : indigenous knowledge and adaptive management in the western Arctic
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Pollock-Ellwand, Nancy;
(2010)
Rickson Outhet: Bringing the Olmsted Legacy to Canada. A Romantic View of Nature in the Metropolis and the Hinterland
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Edward Jones-Imhotep;
(2017)
The Unreliable Nation: Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War
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Carlson, Hans M.;
(2004)
A Watershed of Words: Litigating and Negotiating Nature in Eastern James Bay, 1971--75
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Thesis
Kerber, Jenny;
(2007)
Writing in Dust: Reading the Prairie Environmentally
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Thorpe, Jocelyn;
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Temagami's Tangled Wild: Race, Gender, and the Making of Canadian Nature
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Jennifer Rhee;
(2018)
The robotic imaginary: the human and the price of dehumanized labor
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Dejan Petkov;
(June 2020)
Tramway Renaissance in Western Europe: A Socio-technical Analysis
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Peter Ekman;
(2021)
‘This scene is itself living’: Buildings as landscapes in transatlantic human geography, 1870–1970
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Yearwood, Peter J.;
(2014)
Continents and Consequences: The History of a Concept
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Cipolla, Carlo M.;
(1985)
Contro un nemico invisible: Epidemie e strutture sanitarie nell'Italia del Rinascimento
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Bangham, Jenny;
Chadarevian, Soraya de;
(2014)
Human Heredity after 1945: Moving Populations Centre Stage
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Renee Pualani Louis;
Aunty Moana Kahele;
(2017)
Kanaka Hawai'i Cartography: Hula, Navigation, and Oratory
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Nicholas Beuret;
Gareth Brown;
(2017)
The Walking Dead: The Anthropocene as a Ruined Earth
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