Research Catalog

Title

Method and meaning in Canadian environmental history / edited by Alan MacEachern, William J. Turkel.

Publication

Toronto : Nelson Education, 2009 [i.e. 2008].

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Additional Authors

• MacEachern, Alan, 1966-
• Turkel, William J. (William Joseph), 1967-

Description

xv, 336 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Subject

• Human ecology > Canada > History > Methodology
• Nature > Effect of human beings on > History > Methodology. > Canada
• Écologie humaine > Canada > Histoire > Méthodologie
• Nature > Effets de la chasse sur > Histoire > Méthodologie. > Canada
• Canada > Environmental conditions > History > Methodology

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

An introduction, in theory and practice / Alan MacEachern -- Section I : Approaching environmental history. Travels with George Perkins Marsh : notes on a journey into environmental history / Graeme Wynn -- Ice, worms, and dirt : the power of nature in North American history / Donald Worster -- Section II : Reading landscapes. Historical archaeology and the maritime cultural landscape of the Atlantic Fishery / Peter E. Pope -- Writing, ritual, and folklore : imagining the cultural geography of voyageurs / Carolyn Podruchny -- Section III : Manipulating scale. People and animals in the Arctic : mediating between ingredients and western knowledge / Lyle Dick -- Colloquial meteorology / Liza Piper -- History as experiment : microhistory and environmental history / R.W. Sandwell -- Section IV : Learning by looking. Seeing and not seeing : landscape art as a historical source / Colin M. Coates -- Finding Emily / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands -- Section V : Finding the nation in nature. Trust in bread and bologna : promoting prairie wheat in the Twentieth century / John F. Varty -- Lost in shipping : Canadian National Parks and the international donation of wildlife / Alan MacEachern -- Section VI : Reading cities. The urbanization of nature : water networks and green spaces in Montreal / Michéle Dagenais -- Thinking forest : urban forestry at the University of Toronto in the 1960s / Joanna Dean -- Section VII : Thinking spatially. Mapping cold war Canada : George Kimble's Canadian military geography, 1949 / Matthew Evenden -- Reconstructing reforestation : changing land-use patterns along the Saint-François River in the eastern townships / Stéphane Castonguay and Diane Saint-Laurent -- Section VIII : Negotiating expertise. Nature's stories? Pursuing science in environmental history / Stephen Bocking -- It costs something to learn something : property rights, information costs, and the struggle at fish lake / William J. Turkel.

ISBN

• 9780176441166
• 0176441166

OCLC

• 181492069
• SCSB-10847012

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library