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Book Synopsis
This text traces the interaction between humans and the Canadian landscape, from the arrival of the first peoples to our current environmental crisis.

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MacDowell…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 Contents

Introduction

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

An Environmental History of Canada

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      Book details

      Publisher University of British Columbia Press
      Published 25 July 2012
      ISBN-13 9780774821025
      978-0774821025
      ISBN-10 0774821027
      Also in:
      Conservation of the environment Historical geography

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This text traces the interaction between humans and the Canadian landscape, from the arrival of the first peoples to our current environmental crisis.

      Trade Review

      MacDowell…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 Contents

      Introduction

      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

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