Description
Book SynopsisThis text traces the interaction between humans and the Canadian landscape, from the arrival of the first peoples to our current environmental crisis.
Trade ReviewMacDowell…mounts an impressive summary of how Canadian history has been rethought from an environment perspective over the last 40 years. She demonstrates this with a copiously illustrated and well-referenced exploration of the evolution of Canada’s landscape over millennia…a very accessible text for students and general readers, with excellent maps, illustrations, information boxes, and rich bibliographies for each chapter. Highly recommended.
-- B. Osborne, Queen's University at Kingston * Choice *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part 1: Aboriginal Peoples and Settlers
1 Encountering a New Land
2 Settling the Land and Transforming the “Wilderness”
Part 2: Industrialism, Reform, and Infrastructure
3 Early Cities and Urban Reform
4 The Conservation Movement
5 Mining Resources
6 Cars, Consumerism, and Suburbs
Part 3: Harnessing Nature, Harming Nature
7 Changing Energy Regimes
8 Water
9 The Contested World of Food and Agriculture
Part 4: The Environmental Era
10 The Environmental Movement and Public Policy
11 Parks and Wildlife
12 Coastal Fisheries
13 The North and Climate Change
Conclusion
Index
