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Location	Call #	Volume	Status
Sherman Library	GE160.A68 D46 2019		AVAILABLE

Author	Demuth, Bathsheba, author.
Title	Floating coast : an environmental history of the Bering Strait / Bathsheba Demuth.
Edition	First edition.
OCLC	1091237096
ISBN	9780393635164
	0393635163
Publisher	New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Description	xiv, 416 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
LC Subject heading/s	Human ecology -- Arctic regions -- History.
	Natural resources -- Arctic regions -- History.
	Capitalism -- Environmental aspects -- Arctic regions -- History.
	Communism -- Environmental aspects -- Arctic regions -- History.
	Arctic regions -- Environmental conditions -- History.
	Bering Strait -- Environmental conditions -- History.
Summary	"A groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between humans and the natural world where two great economic ideologies converge. 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 growth and state power over the past century and a half. More urgent in a warming climate, and as we seek new economic ideas for a postindustrial age, Floating Coast delivers necessary warnings and poses provocative questions about human desires and needs in relation to environmental sustainability"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Prologue: The migration north -- Whale country -- Whale fall -- The floating coast -- The waking ice -- The moving tundra -- The climate of change -- The unquiet earth -- Elements of redemption -- Caloric values -- Species of enlightenment.

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ISBN	9780393635164
	0393635163
Author	Demuth, Bathsheba, author.
Title	Floating coast : an environmental history of the Bering Strait / Bathsheba Demuth.
Publisher	New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]

Title

Floating coast : an environmental history of the Bering Strait / Bathsheba Demuth.

Author

Demuth, Bathsheba, author.

ISBN	9780393635164
	0393635163

Description

xiv, 416 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

OCLC	1091237096

Publisher

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]

Summary	"A groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between humans and the natural world where two great economic ideologies converge. 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 growth and state power over the past century and a half. More urgent in a warming climate, and as we seek new economic ideas for a postindustrial age, Floating Coast delivers necessary warnings and poses provocative questions about human desires and needs in relation to environmental sustainability"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Prologue: The migration north -- Whale country -- Whale fall -- The floating coast -- The waking ice -- The moving tundra -- The climate of change -- The unquiet earth -- Elements of redemption -- Caloric values -- Species of enlightenment.

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First edition.