Culturing Wilderness In Jasper National Park
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| Author | : I.S. MacLaren |
| Publisher | : University of Alberta |
| Total Pages | : 401 |
| Release | : 2012-07-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0888645708 |
Adults need playgrounds. In 1907, the Canadian government designated a vast section of the Rocky Mountains as Jasper Forest Park. Tourists now play where Native peoples once lived, fur traders toiled, and Métis families homesteaded. In Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park, I.S. MacLaren and eight other writers unearth the largely unrecorded past of the upper Athabasca River watershed, and bring to light two centuries' worth of human history, tracing the evolution of trading routes into the Rockies' largest park. Serious history enthusiasts and those with an interest in Canada's national parks will find a sense of connection in this long overdue study of Jasper.
| Author | : J. Keri Cronin |
| Publisher | : UBC Press |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 2011-07-01 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 077481909X |
National parks occupy a prominent place in the Canadian imagination, yet we are only beginning to understand how their visual representation has shaped and continues to inform our perceptions of ecological issues and the natural world. J. Keri Cronin draws on historical and modern postcards, advertisements, and other images of Jasper National Park to trace how various groups and the tourism industry have used photography to divorce the park from real environmental threats and instead package it as a series of breathtaking vistas and adorable-looking animals. Manufacturing National Park Nature demonstrates that popular forms of picturing nature can have ecological implications that extend far beyond the frame of the image.
| Author | : Shane P. Mahoney |
| Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Total Pages | : 177 |
| Release | : 2019-09-10 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1421432803 |
Organ, James Peek, William Porter, John Sandlos, James A. Schaefer
| Author | : Jules Pretty |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 1588 |
| Release | : 2006-06-23 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9781412918428 |
This four-volume set explores the locations where the environment matters most such as where people are poor, where environments are under threat (such as on frontiers), where there are few natural resources remaining, and where industrialization is rampant. It will also explore these concerns at different system levels, from local-community, to regional, national and global. It will also explore costs of damage to the very resources on which economies rely, and the values of environmental goods and services and the controversies surrounding such valuations. It is organized around environment-people interactions (livelihoods, poverty, income, economic growth); environment-environment interactions (do people matter?); and people-people interactions (collective action challenges, institutions).
| Author | : Robert Boschman |
| Publisher | : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
| Total Pages | : 474 |
| Release | : 2014-10-22 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1554589754 |
Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene is a collection of essays about the natural environment in a province rich in natural resources and aggressive in development goals. This is a casebook on Alberta from which emerges a far wider set of implications for North America and for the biosphere in general. The writers come from an array of disciplinary backgrounds within the environmental humanities. The essays examine the oil/tar sands, climate change, provincial government policy, food production, industry practices, legal frameworks, wilderness spaces, hunting, Indigenous perspectives, and nuclear power. Contributions from an ecocritical perspective provide insight into environmentally themed poetry, photography, and biography. Since the actions of Alberta’s industries and government are currently at the heart of a global environmental debate, this collection is valuable to those wishing to understand the natural and commercial forces in play. The editors present an introductory argument that frames these interests inside a call for a rethinking of our assumptions about the natural world and our place within it.
| Author | : Laurel Sefton MacDowell |
| Publisher | : UBC Press |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2012-07-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0774821043 |
Traces how Canada’s colonial and national development contributed to modern environmental problems such as urban sprawl, the collapse of fisheries, and climate change Includes over 200 photographs, maps, figures, and sidebar discussions on key figures, concepts, and cases Offers concise definitions of environmental concepts Ties Canadian history to issues relevant to contemporary society Introduces students to a new, dynamic approach to the past Throughout history most people have associated northern North America with wilderness – with abundant fish and game, snow-capped mountains, and endless forest and prairie. Canada’s contemporary picture gallery, however, contains more disturbing images – deforested mountains, empty fisheries, and melting ice caps. Adopting both a chronological and thematic approach, Laurel MacDowell examines human interactions with the land, and the origins of our current environmental crisis, from first peoples to the Kyoto Protocol. This richly illustrated exploration of the past from an environmental perspective will change the way Canadians and others around the world think about – and look at – Canada.
| Author | : Sharon Wall |
| Publisher | : UBC Press |
| Total Pages | : 391 |
| Release | : 2010-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0774858842 |
Thousands of children attended summer camps in twentieth-century Ontario. Did parents simply want a break, or were broader developments at play? The Nurture of Nature explores how competing cultural tendencies � antimodern nostalgia and modern sensibilities about the landscape, child rearing, and identity � shaped the development of summer camps and, consequently, modern social life in North America. A valuable resource for those interested in the connections between the history of childhood, the natural environment, and recreation, The Nature of Nurture will also appeal to anyone who has been packed off to camp and wants to explore why.
| Author | : PearlAnn Reichwein |
| Publisher | : University of Alberta |
| Total Pages | : 472 |
| Release | : 2014-08-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1772120235 |
Brian Evans blends memoir and history to draw a vivid picture of China and its cultural outreach over the past three decades. His historical and sociological insights as student, scholar, and administrator form an authentic commentary as he discusses China and the Cold War; the Cultural Revolution; the post-Mao transformation of China; Canada's relations with China; the cultural impact of the overseas Chinese community on the Canadian Prairies; development of China studies in Canada and elsewhere; the current impact of China on Canadian higher education; and recent Chinese history seen within a broader context. With this book, Evans seeks to make a contribution to the understanding of the nature and wide range of Canada-China relations, an area in which he himself has played a role.
| Author | : Colleen Skidmore |
| Publisher | : University of Alberta |
| Total Pages | : 401 |
| Release | : 2012-02-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0888645872 |
In 1912, Mary Vaux, a botanist, glaciologist, painter, and photographer, wrote about her mountain adventures: "A day on the trail, or a scramble over the glacier, or even with a quiet day in camp to get things in order for the morrow's conquests? Some how when once this wild spirit enters the blood...I can hardly wait to be off again." Vaux's compulsion was shared by many women whose intellects, imaginations, and spirits rose to the challenge of the mountains between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. This Wild Spirit explores a sampling of women's creative responses--in fiction and travel writing, photographs and paintings, embroidery and beadwork, letters and diaries, poetry and posters--to their experiences in the Rocky Mountains of Canada.
| Author | : A.A. den Otter |
| Publisher | : University of Alberta |
| Total Pages | : 473 |
| Release | : 2012-04-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0888645465 |
Eleven essays explore the dichotomy of "civilizing" and "wilderness" in 1850s Euro-British North America.
