Northscapes
History, Technology, and the Making of Northern Environments
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
Northscapes
History, Technology, and the Making of Northern Environments
324 pages

Table of Contents
Introduction Making the Action Visible, Making Environments in Northern Landscapes / Dolly Jørgensen and Sverker Sörlin
Part 1: Exploring the North
1 “A Cruel Climate without Any Kind of Art”: European Natural History and the Northern Nature of the Other Pacific, 1740-1840 / Ryan Tucker Jones
2 How Fossils Gave the First Hints of Climate Change: The Explorer A.E. Nordenskiöld’s Passion for Fossils and Northern Environmental History / Seija A. Niemi
3 Technological Heroes: Images of the Arctic in the Age of Polar Aviation / Marionne Cronin
Part 2: Colonizing the North
4 Mounds, Middens, and Social Landscapes: Viking-Norse Settlement of the North Atlantic, c. AD 850-1250 / Jane Harrison
5 In Search of Instructive Models: The Russian State at a Crossroads to Conquering the North / Julia Lajus
Part 3: Working the North
6 Traversal Technology Transfer: The Transfer of Agricultural Knowledge between Peripheries in the North / Jan Kunnas
7 The Sheep, the Market, and the Soil: Environmental Destruction in the Icelandic Highlands, 1880-1910 / Anna Gudrún Thórhallsdóttir, Árni Daníel Júlíusson, and Helga Ögmundardóttir
8 More Things on Heaven and Earth: Modernism and Reindeer in Chukotka and Alaska / Bathsheba Demuth
9 A Touch of Frost: Gender, Class, Technology, and the Urban Environment in an Industrializing Nordic City / Simo Laakkonen
Part 4: Imagining the North
10 North Takes Place in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada / Lisa Cooke
11 Iceland and the North: An Idea of Belonging and Being Apart / Unnur Birna Karlsdóttir
Epilogue The Networked North: Thinking about the Past, Present, and Future of Environmental Histories of the North / Finn Arne Jørgensen
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