Northscapes: History, Technology, and the Making of Northern Environments

. Ed(s): Jorgensen, Dolly; Sorlin, Sverker

ISBN 10: 0774825715 / ISBN 13: 9780774825719

Published by UBC Press, 2013

About this Item

Northscapes examines concepts of North and the way in which different northern environments are shaped by the intersection of technology and human societies. Editor(s): Jorgensen, Dolly; Sorlin, Sverker. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: RGCM; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 604. . 2013. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Northscapes: History, Technology, and the Making of Northern Environments
• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774825715
• ISBN 13: 9780774825719
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book argues that the unique environments of the North have been borne of the relationship between humans and nature. Approaching the topic through the lens of environmental history, the contributors examine a broad range of geographies, including those of Iceland and other islands in the Northern Atlantic, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the Pacific Northwest, and Canada, over a time span ranging from CE 800 to 2000. Northscapes is bound together by the intellectual project of investigating the North both as an imagined and mythologized space and as an environment shaped by human technology.

About the Author

Dolly Jorgensen is an environmental historian in ecology and environmental science at Umea University in Sweden. Sverker Sorlin is professor of environmental history at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden.