Method and meaning in Canadian environmental history
By: edited by Alan MacEachern, William J. Turkel
Publisher: Nelson Education
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780176441166
Subjects: Human ecology; History; Methodology; Nature; Effect of human beings on; Environmental conditions; Écologie humaine; Histoire; Méthodologie; Effets de la chasse sur
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An introduction, in theory and practice / Alan MacEachern; title: Section I : Approaching environmental history. Travels with George Perkins Marsh : notes on a journey into environmental history / Graeme Wynn; title: Ice, worms, and dirt : the power of nature in North American history / Donald Worster; title: Section II : Reading landscapes. Historical archaeology and the maritime cultural landscape of the Atlantic Fishery / Peter E. Pope; title: Writing, ritual, and folklore : imagining the cultural geography of voyageurs / Carolyn Podruchny; title: Section III : Manipulating scale. People and animals in the Arctic : mediating between ingredients and western knowledge / Lyle Dick; title: Colloquial meteorology / Liza Piper; title: History as experiment : microhistory and environmental history / R.W. Sandwell; title: Section IV : Learning by looking. Seeing and not seeing : landscape art as a historical source / Colin M. Coates; title: Finding Emily / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands; title: Section V : Finding the nation in nature. Trust in bread and bologna : promoting prairie wheat in the Twentieth century / John F. Varty; title: Lost in shipping : Canadian National Parks and the international donation of wildlife / Alan MacEachern; title: Section VI : Reading cities. The urbanization of nature : water networks and green spaces in Montreal / Michéle Dagenais; title: Thinking forest : urban forestry at the University of Toronto in the 1960s / Joanna Dean; title: Section VII : Thinking spatially. Mapping cold war Canada : George Kimble's Canadian military geography, 1949 / Matthew Evenden; title: Reconstructing reforestation : changing land-use patterns along the Saint-François River in the eastern townships / Stéphane Castonguay and Diane Saint-Laurent; title: Section VIII : Negotiating expertise. Nature's stories? Pursuing science in environmental history / Stephen Bocking; title: It costs something to learn something : property rights, information costs, and the struggle at fish lake / William J. Turkel.