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Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait - Hardcover

Demuth, Bathsheba

 
9780393635164: Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0393635163 ISBN 13: 9780393635164
Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Whales and walruses, caribou and fox, gold and oil: through the stories of these animals and resources, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years.Floating CoastDrawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region, as well as from archival sources, Demuth shows how the social, the political, and the environmental clashed in this liminal space. Through the lens of the natural world, she views human life and economics as fundamentally about cycles of energy, bringing a fresh and visionary spin to the writing of human history.Floating Coast

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Bathsheba Demuth is an environmental historian at Brown University, specializing in the United States and Russia, and in the history of energy and past climates. She has lived in and studied Arctic communities across Eurasia and North America.

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Verlag
WW Norton & Co
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393635163
ISBN 13 
9780393635164
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
416
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