Northscapes: History, Technology, and the Making of Northern Environments (Hardcover)

Northscapes: History, Technology, and the Making of Northern Environments By Dolly Jørgensen (Editor) Cover Image
By Dolly Jørgensen (Editor)
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This book argues that the unique environments of the North have been born 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.
Product Details
ISBN: 9780774825719
ISBN-10: 0774825715
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Publication Date: November 8th, 2013
Pages: 324
Language: English