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Intersections eBook Series

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  • Field Life

    Science in the American West during the Railroad Era

    by Jeremy Vetter ...
    Series Book 1 - Intersections
    Field Life examines the practice of science in the field in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains of the American West between the 1860s and the 1910s, when the railroad was the dominant form of long-distance transportation. Grounded in approaches from environmental history and the history of technology, it emphasizes the material basis of scientific fieldwork, joining together the human labor that ... Read more

    $84.79 CAD

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  • Changes in the Land

    Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

    by William Cronon, John Demos ...
    The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated.Winner of the Francis Parkman PrizeIn this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • The Eternal Frontier

    An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples

    by Tim Flannery ...
    A comprehensive history of the continent, "full of engaging and attention-catching information about North America's geology, climate, and paleontology" ( The Washington Post Book World).Here, "the rock star of modern science" tells the unforgettable story of the geological and biological evolution of the North American continent, from the time of the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Before Ontario

    The Archaeology of a Province

    Edited by Marit Munson, Susan Jamieson ...
    Series Book 72 - McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
    Before Ontario there was ice. As the last ice age came to an end, land began to emerge from the melting glaciers. With time, plants and animals moved into the new landscape and people followed. For almost 15,000 years, the land that is now Ontario has provided a home for their descendants: hundreds of generations of First Peoples. With contributions from the province's leading archaeologists, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Skull Wars

    Kennewick Man, Archaeology, And The Battle For Native American Identity

    by David Hurst Thomas ...
    The 1996 discovery, near Kennewick, Washington, of a 9,000-year-old Caucasoid skeleton brought more to the surface than bones. The explosive controversy and resulting lawsuit also raised a far more fundamental question: Who owns history? Many Indians see archeologists as desecrators of tribal rites and traditions; archeologists see their livelihoods and science threatened by the 1990 Federal ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Once and Future Great Lakes Country

    An Ecological History

    by John Riley ...
    Series Book 2 - McGill-Queen's Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies Series
    North America's Great Lakes country has experienced centuries of upheaval. Its landscapes are utterly changed from what they were five hundred years ago. The region's superabundant fish and wildlife and its magnificent forests and prairies astonished European newcomers who called it an earthly paradise but then ushered in an era of disease, warfare, resource depletion, and land development that ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Down to Earth

    Nature's Role in American History

    by Ted Steinberg ...
    A tour de force of writing and analysis, Down to Earth offers a sweeping history of our nation, one that for the first time places the environment at the very center of our story. Writing with marvelous clarity, historian Ted Steinberg sweeps across the centuries, re-envisioning the story of America as he recounts how the environment has played a key role in virtually every social, economic, and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • What This Awl Means

    Feminist Archaeology at a Wahpeton Dakota Village

    by Janet D. Spector ...
    This pioneering work focuses on excavations and discoveries at Little Rapids, a 19th-century Eastern Dakota planting village near present-day Minneapolis. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Temagami

    A Debate on Wilderness

    Edited by Matt Bray, Ashley Thomson ...
    Over the past two decades, the question of who owns the land of Temagami and how the land should be used has caused a debate of unparalleled intensity.For the native people, it is their lands under attack. For environmentalists from all parts of Ontario, it is a case of ecological preservation of a unique but fast-disappearing wilderness. For others, dependent upon the resource sector, it is a ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Destruction of the Bison

    An Environmental History, 1750–1920

    by Andrew C. Isenberg ...
    Series series Studies in Environment and History
    The Destruction of the Bison, first published in 2000, explains the decline of the North American bison population from an estimated 30 million in 1800 to fewer than a thousand a century later. In this wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study, Andrew C. Isenberg argues that the cultural and ecological encounter between Native Americans and Euroamericans in the Great Plains was the central cause of ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • American Environmental History

    An Introduction

    by Carolyn Merchant ...
    Series series Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures
    By studying the many ways diverse peoples have changed, shaped, and conserved the natural world over time, environmental historians provide insight into humanity's unique relationship with nature and, more importantly, are better able to understand the origins of our current environmental crisis. Beginning with the precolonial land-use practice of Native Americans and concluding with our twenty ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Making of America's Culture Regions

    by Richard L. Nostrand ...
    This outstanding text provides students with the essential foundation in the historical geography of the United States. Distinguished scholar Richard L. Nostrand skillfully synthesizes decades of historical geography research in an engaging and thought-provoking overview. His regional geography framework emphasizes the three themes central to cultural geography—cultural ecology, cultural diffusion ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD