Floating coast : an environmental history of the Bering Strait
by
Demuth, Bathsheba, author.
Title
:
Floating coast : an environmental history of the Bering Strait
Bathsheba Demuth.
Personal Author
:
Demuth, Bathsheba, author.
Edition
:
First edition.
Publication Information
:
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Physical Description
:
xiv, 416 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
ISBN
:
9780393635164
Abstract
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"A groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between humans and the natural world where two great economic ideologies converge. Along the Bering Strait, through the territories of the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia, Bathsheba Demuth explores an ecosystem that has long sustained human beings. Yet when Americans and Europeans arrived with self-serving ideas of human progress, the Chukchi and Seward Peninsulas and surrounding waters became the site of an historical experiment. Here, the great modern ideologies of production and consumption, capitalism and communism, were subject to the pressures of arctic scarcity. Whales and walruses, caribou and fox, gold and oil: through these resources Demuth draws a vivid portrait of the sweeping effects of turning ecological wealth into economic growth and state power over the past century and a half. More urgent in a warming climate, and as we seek new economic ideas for a postindustrial age, Floating Coast delivers necessary warnings and poses provocative questions about human desires and needs in relation to environmental sustainability"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Note
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Term
:
Human ecology -- Arctic regions -- History.
Natural resources -- Arctic regions -- History.
Capitalism -- Environmental aspects -- Arctic regions -- History.
Communism -- Environmental aspects -- Arctic regions -- History.
Geographic Term
:
Arctic regions -- Environmental conditions -- History.
Bering Strait -- Environmental conditions -- History.
Contents
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Prologue: The migration north -- Whale country -- Whale fall -- The floating coast -- The waking ice -- The moving tundra -- The climate of change -- The unquiet earth -- Elements of redemption -- Caloric values -- Species of enlightenment -- Epilogue: The transformation of matter.
Library | Call Number | Type | Status |
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Anchorage Museum | GE160 .A68 D46 2019 | Book | Non-Circulating Collection |
Chukchi Consortium | GE160 .A68 D46 2019 | Book | Non-fiction |
FNSB Fairbanks | GE 160 .A68 .D46 2019 | Book | Non-fiction |
FNSB North Pole | GE 160 .A68 .D46 2019 | Book | Non-fiction |
JPL Mendenhall | 508.311 DEMUTH | Book | Non-fiction |
Kenai Community | 508.311 DEM | Book | Non-fiction |
MSBSD Federal Programs Library | INDIGENOUS HISTORY | Book | Non-fiction |
Sitka Public | ALASKA 508 DEMUTH | Book | Alaska |
State Library Historical | GE160.A68D46 2019 | Book | In Library Use Only |
Sutton Public | ALASKA 508.311 DEMUTH | Book | Alaska |
Trapper Creek Public | ALASKA 508.311 DEMUTH | Book | Alaska |
UAA Homer | GE160.A68 D46 2019 | Book | General Collection |
UAA Kodiak | GE160.A68 D46 2019 | Book | General Collection |
UAA/APU Consortium | GE160.A68 D46 2019 | Book | Alaskana Collection |
UAA/APU Consortium | GE160.A68 D46 2019 | Book | Alaskana Collection |
UAF Rasmuson | GE160.A68 D46 2019 ALASKA | Book | Alaska |
UAF Rasmuson | GE160.A68 D46 2019 ALASKA | Book | Alaska |
UAS Egan | GE160.A68D46 2019 | Book | Circulating Collection |
UAS Ketchikan | GE160.A68 D46 2019 | Book | General Collection |
Valdez Consortium | 508.311 DEMUTH | Book | Non-fiction |
Wasilla Public | ALASKA 508.311 DEMUTH | Book | Alaska |