Against the Tides

Reshaping Landscape and Community in Canada's Maritime Marshlands

Ronald Rudin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

316 Seiten

2022
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-6676-7 (ISBN)

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For four centuries, dykes held back the largest tides in the world, in the Bay of Fundy region of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. These dykes turned salt marsh into arable land and made farming possible, but by the 1940s they had fallen into disrepair. Against the Tides is the never-before-told story of the Maritime Marshland Rehabilitation Administration (MMRA), a federal agency created in 1948 to reshape the landscape. Although agency engineers often borrowed from long-standing dykeland practices, they were so convinced of their own expertise that they sometimes disregarded local conditions, marginalizing farmers in the process. The engineers' hubris resulted in tidal dams that compromised some of the region's rivers, leaving behind environmental damage. This book is a vivid, richly detailed account of a distinctive landscape and its occupants, revealing the push–pull of local and expert knowledge and the role of the state in the postwar era.

Ronald Rudin is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Concordia University. He is the author of numerous books, among them Remembering and Forgetting in Acadie: A Historian's Journey through Public Memory and Kouchibouguac: Removal, Resistance, and Remembrance at a Canadian National Park. The latter received the Canadian Historical Association Clio Prize for best book on Atlantic Canada, the Canadian Oral History Association Prize, and the Prix de l'Assemblée nationale from the Institut d'histoire de l'Amérique française. Rudin has produced eight documentary films, most recently Unnatural Landscapes, which accompanies this book.

Part 1: Second Nature

1 Out to Sea

2 Reconstruction

Part 2: Third Nature

3 Dam Projects

4 Legacies

Epilogue: Meet the Grand Pre Marsh Body

Notes; Bibliography; Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.09.2022
Reihe/Serie	Nature
Zusatzinfo	46 b&w photos, 2 maps, 1 chart
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	480 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	0-7748-6676-4 / 0774866764
ISBN-13	978-0-7748-6676-7 / 9780774866767
Zustand	Neuware