Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Navigating Northern Environmental HistoryStephen Bocking
Part 1: Forming Northern Colonial Enviornment
2. Moving through the Margins: The “All-Canadian” Route to the Klondike and the Strange Experience of the Teslin TrailJonathan Peyton
3. Thee Experimental State of Nature: Science and the Canadian Reindeer Project in the Interwar North
4. Shaped by the Land: An Envirotechnical History of a Canadian Bush PlainMarionne Cronin
5. Many Tiny Traces: Antimodernism and Northern Exploration Between the WarsTina Adcock
Part 2: Transformations and the Modern North
6. From Subsistence to Nutrition: The Canadian State’s Involvement in Food and Diet in the North, 1900-1970Liza Piper
7. Hope in the Barrenlands: Northern Development and Sustainability’s Canadian HistoryTina Loo
8. Western Electric Turns North: Technicians and the Transformation of the Cold War ArcticMatthew Farish and P. Whitney Lackenbauer
Part 3: Environmental History and the Contemporary North
9. “That’s the Place Where I Was Born”: History, Narrative Ecology, and Politics in Canada’s NorthHans M. Carlson
10. Imposing Territoriality: First Nation Land Claims and the Transformation of Human-Environment Relations in the Yukon
Paul Nadasy
11. Ghost Towns and Zombie Mines: The Historical Dimensions of Mine Abandonment, Reclamation and Redevelopment in the Canadian NorthArn Keeling and John Sandlos
12. Toxic Surprises: Contaminants and Knowledge in the Northern EnvironmentStephen Bocking
13. Climate Anti-Politics: Scale, Locality, and Arctic Climate ChangeEmilie Cameron
Conclusion
14. Encounters in Northern Environmental HistoryStephen Bocking
Contributors
Index