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Floating coast : an environmental history of the Bering Strait

Demuth, Bathsheba, author

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\"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.

• Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
• Subject: 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.
• ISBN: 9780393635164

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
GE160.A68 D46 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE