Floating Coast An Environmental History of the Bering Strait

Name: Floating Coast An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
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ISBN: 9780393635164

ISBN-10: 0393635163

ISBN-13: 9780393635164

Edition: 2019

Authors: Bathsheba Demuth

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Along the Bering Strait, through the territories of the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia, Bathsheba Demuth explores an ecosystem that has long sustained human beings. Yet when Americans and Europeans arrived with self-serving ideas of human progress, the Chukchi and Seward Peninsulas and surrounding waters became the site of an historical experiment. Here, the great modern ideologies of production and consumption, capitalism and communism, were subject to the pressures of arctic scarcity.Whales and walruses, caribou and fox, gold and oil: through these resources Demuth draws a vivid portrait of the sweeping effects of turning ecological wealth into economic…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2019
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/20/2019
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.37" wide x 9.50" long x 1.39" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English