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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Piper, Liza, 1978- Industrial transformation of subarctic Canada. Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2009499329 (OCoLC)242051373 |
Material Type: | Biography, Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Liza Piper |
ISBN: | 9780774815345 0774815345 |
OCLC Number: | 747432057 |
Awards: | Winner of K.D. Srivastava Prize 2010 (Canada) Winner of Clio Award (North), Canadian Historical Association 2010 (Canada) |
Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 403 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents: | Foreword: The Nature of Industrialization / Graeme Wynn -- Introduction: The Industrial Colonization of the Northwest -- On the Edge: the 1920s -- Railroad's End: Adaptation -- Industrial Appetites -- Ordered World -- Sub/Terrain -- Harnessing the Wet West -- "Two Weights and Two Measures": Conservation and Conflict in the Fisheries -- Industrial Circuitry -- Hazards of Disassembly -- Conclusion: The Frontiers of High-Energy Civilization. |
Series Title: | Nature, history, society. |
Responsibility: | Liza Piper ; foreword by Graeme Wynn. |
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Liza Piper captures with detail and insight an essential episode in northern environmental history ... in telling this story Piper provides an immensely valuable perspective not just on northern history, but on the practice of environmental history itself ... she also exhibits an impressive sensitivity for the meanings embedded in both action and language. But where she especially excels is in situating this history in a specific place, and in invoking its material basis in living organisms: lakes and rivers, water and ice, earth and fire. This history has dirt under its fingernails. -- Stephen Bocking * Northern Review, Fall 2009 * Read more...


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