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The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada
Liza Piper  

$85.00 Hardcover
Release Date: 3/10/2009
ISBN: 9780774815321    


$32.95 Paperback
Release Date: 1/1/2010
ISBN: 9780774815338    
424 Pages
Nature | History | Society series

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Winner, 2010 K.D. Srivastava Prize, UBC Press

The industrialization of Canada's Subarctic relied upon the region's large northwestern lakes: Winnipeg, Athabasca, Great Slave, and Great Bear. Between 1921 and 1960, these lakes comprised a seam in the Canadian interior where industrial economies took root, transgressing political geographies and superseding the historically dominant fur trade. The state and private enterprise imported southern scientists and sojourning labourers to work the Northwest, and its industrial history bears these newcomers’ imprint. The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada reveals the history of human impact upon the North. It provides a baseline, grounded in historical and scientific evidence, for measuring environmental change in the Subarctic.

Liza Piper examines the sustainability of industrial economies, the value of resource exploitation in volatile ecosystems, and the human consequences of northern environmental change. She also addresses northern communities’ historical resistance to external resource development and their fight for survival in the face of intensifying environmental and economic pressures. This rich environmental history will appeal to historians, geographers, and environmentalists interested in industrialization, resource management, and the Canadian North.

About the Author(s)

Liza Piper is an assistant professor of history at the University of Alberta.

Table of Contents

Foreword: The Nature of Industrialization
By Graeme Wynn

Introduction: The Industrial Colonization of the Northwest

Part One
Chapter 1: On the Edge: the 1920s
Chapter 2: Railroad's End: Adaptation
Chapter 3: Industrial Appetites

Part Two
Chapter 4: An Ordered World
Chapter 5: Sub / Terrain
Chapter 6: Harnessing the Wet West
Chapter 7: "Two Weights and Two Measures": Conservation and Conflict in the Fisheries

Part Three
Chapter 8: Industrial Circuitry
Chapter 9: The Hazards of Disassembly

Conclusion: The Frontiers of High-Energy Civilization

Appendices
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Reviews

"Liza Piper's book couples an impressive command of archival sources and empirical detail with an unusually diverse range of scholarship, and demonstrates a creative intelligence that ultimately brings readers to think about the meanings embedded in language, metaphor, and imagination."
-- from the Foreword by Graeme Wynn

Sample Chapter

Front Matter and Chapter One

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