Title: Northscapes : history, technology, and the making of northern environments /
Authors: Jørgensen, Dolly, 1972-; Sörlin, Sverker; Sörlin, Sverker,; Jørgensen, Dolly, 1972-,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Human ecology Arctic regions History.; Technology Arctic regions History.; Arctic regions Environmental conditions History.; Arctic regions Discovery and exploration History.; Arctic regions Historiography.; Arctic regions Discovery and exploration.
Abstract: "The idea of North is a multivalent concept. It is geographical, but more than just Arctic; it is both an imagined space and a place of harsh challenges. These challenges resonate with each other across the northern world, shaping different areas of the North in many similar ways. Distinctive northern environments are created as humans adapt to climatic and geographic conditions while simultaneously adapting the landscapes to their own needs with technologies, trade, and social organization.
Contents: Pt. 1 Exploring the North -- 1. "A Cruel Climate without Any Kind of Art": European Natural History and the Northern Nature of the Other Pacific 1740 -- 1840 / Ryan Tucker Jones -- 2. How Fossils Gave the First Hints of Climate Change: The Explorer A.E. Nordenskiold's Passion for Fossils and Northern Environmental History / Seija A. Niemi -- 3. Technological Heroes: Images of the Arctic in the Age of Polar Aviation / Marionne Cronin -- pt. 2 Colonizing the North -- 4. Mounds, Middens, and Social Landscapes: Viking-Norse Settlement of the North Atlantic, c. AD 850 -- 1250 / Jane Harrison -- 5. In Search of Instructive Models: The Russian State at a Crossroads to Conquering the North / Julia Lajus -- pt. 3 Working the North -- 6. Traversal Technology Transfer: The Transfer of Agricultural Knowledge between Peripheries in the North / Jan Kunnas -- 7. Sheep, the Market, and the Soil: Environmental Destruction in the Icelandic Highlands 1880-1910 / Helga Ogmundardottir -- 8. More Things on Heaven and Earth: Modernism and Reindeer in Chukotka and Alaska / Bathsheba Demuth -- 9. Touch of Frost: Gender, Class, Technology, and the Urban Environment in an Industrializing Nordic City / Simo Laakkonen -- pt. 4 Imagining the North -- 10. North Takes Place in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada / Lisa Cooke -- 11. Iceland and the North: An Idea of Belonging and Being Apart / Unnur Birna Karlsdottir.