Book ID: CBB610557368

Floating coast: An environmental history of the Bering Strait (2019)

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Bathsheba Demuth (Author)


W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 416
Language: English

A groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between humans and the natural world where two great economic ideologies converge. Along the Bering Strait, through the territories of the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia, Bathsheba Demuth explores an ecosystem that has long sustained human beings. Yet when Americans and Europeans arrived with self-serving ideas of human progress, the Chukchi and Seward Peninsulas and surrounding waters became the site of an historical experiment. Here, the great modern ideologies of production and consumption, capitalism and communism, were subject to the pressures of arctic scarcity. Whales and walruses, caribou and fox, gold and oil: through these resources Demuth draws a vivid portrait of the sweeping effects of turning ecological wealth into economic growth and state power over the past century and a half. More urgent in a warming climate, and as we seek new economic ideas for a postindustrial age, Floating Coast delivers necessary warnings and poses provocative questions about human desires and needs in relation to environmental sustainability.

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Review Paul Josephson (October 2021) Review of "Floating coast: An environmental history of the Bering Strait". Environmental History (pp. 804-806). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Wråkberg, Urban
Vincent Ialenti
Bockstoce, John R.
Bathsheba Demuth
Herrala, Meri Elisabet
Gerth, Karl
Concepts
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Capitalism
Environmental history
Communism
Cold War
Nature--Effect of human beings on
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
Places
Arctic regions
United States
Soviet Union
Russia
Canada
Norway
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