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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Demuth, Bathsheba.     Subjects     Human ecology -- Arctic regions -- History.     Natural resources -- Arctic regions -- History.     Capitalism -- Environmental aspects -- Arctic regions -- History.     Communism -- Environmental aspects -- Arctic regions -- History.     Arctic regions -- Environmental conditions -- History.     Bering Strait -- Environmental conditions -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Demuth, Bathsheba.       by title:      Floating coast : an ...       by call number:      508.3113 D389f     Search the Web     Demuth, Bathsheba.     Human ecology -- Arctic regions -- History.     Natural resources -- Arctic regions -- History.     Capitalism -- Environmental aspects -- Arctic regions -- History.     Communism -- Environmental aspects -- Arctic regions -- History.     Arctic regions -- Environmental conditions -- History.     Bering Strait -- Environmental conditions -- History.       MARC Display

Floating coast : an environmental history of the Bering Strait / Bathsheba Demuth. by Demuth, Bathsheba. W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. Call #: 508.3113 D389f Subjects Human ecology -- Arctic regions -- History.   Natural resources -- Arctic regions -- History.   Capitalism -- Environmental aspects -- Arctic regions -- History.   Communism -- Environmental aspects -- Arctic regions -- History.   Arctic regions -- Environmental conditions -- History.   Bering Strait -- Environmental conditions -- History. ISBN:  9780393635164 Edition:  1st ed. Description:  xiv, 416 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  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. Summary:  "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"--From publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 508.3113 D389f Core Collection - Adult Checked out Jul 14, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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