Floating Coast
An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
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2020
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-35832-2 (ISBN)
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-35832-2 (ISBN)
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“Extraordinary... seamless... astonishingly rich” (Sverker Sörlin, Nature)—an eye-opening environmental history of the Far North.
Across Russia’s easternmost shores and through the territories of the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how, over 150 years, people turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power.
Beginning in the 1840s, capitalism and then communism, with their ideas of progress, transformed the area around the Bering Strait into a historical experiment in remaking ecosystems. Rendered even more urgent in a warming climate, Floating Coast is a profoundly resonant tale of the impact that human needs and ambitions have brought (and will continue to bring) to a finite planet.
• Shortlisted for the The Pushkin House Book Prize 2020.
Across Russia’s easternmost shores and through the territories of the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how, over 150 years, people turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power.
Beginning in the 1840s, capitalism and then communism, with their ideas of progress, transformed the area around the Bering Strait into a historical experiment in remaking ecosystems. Rendered even more urgent in a warming climate, Floating Coast is a profoundly resonant tale of the impact that human needs and ambitions have brought (and will continue to bring) to a finite planet.
• Shortlisted for the The Pushkin House Book Prize 2020.
Bathsheba Demuth is an environmental historian at Brown University, specializing in the United States and Russia, and in the history of energy and past climates. She has lived in and studied Arctic communities across Eurasia and North America.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.09.2020 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 18 photographs; 7 maps |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 137 x 211 mm |
| Gewicht | 348 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-393-35832-1 / 0393358321 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-393-35832-2 / 9780393358322 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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