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. The North offers a valuable analytical framework that surpasses nation-states and transgresses political and historical borders. This volume develops rich explorations of the entanglements of environmental and technological history in the northern regions of the globe

Northscapes presents the North as a set of unique, dynamic environments, constantly changing as they are shaped by human societies and their technologies.

About the Author

Dolly Jorgensen is an environmental historian in the Department of Ecology and Environmental Science at Umea University in Sweden. Sverker Soerlin is a professor of environmental history at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden.

Contributors: Lisa Cooke, Marionne Cronin, Bathsheba Demuth, Jane Harrison, Ryan Tucker Jones, Finn Arne Jorgensen, Arni Daniel Juliusson, Unnur Birna Karlsdottir, Jan Kunnas, Simo Laakkonen, Julia Lajus, Seija A. Niemi, Helga OEgmundardottir, and Anna Gudrun Thorhallsdottir

Book Information
ISBN 9780774825726
Author Dolly Jorgensen
Format Paperback
Page Count 324
Imprint University of British Columbia Press
Publisher University of British Columbia Press
Weight(grams) 480g