| Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait Contributor(s): Demuth, Bathsheba (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393358321 ISBN-13: 9780393358322 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Polar Regions - History | Historical Geography - Business & Economics | Environmental Economics |
| Dewey: 508.311 |
| LCCN: 2019007096 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (0.75 lbs) 448 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia - Cultural Region - Arctic/Antarctic - Topical - Ecology |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Floating Coast is the first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada. The unforgiving territories along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans--the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia--before American and European colonization. Rapidly, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How, under conditions of extreme scarcity, would modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved? Drawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region, Bathsheba Demuth presents a profound tale of the dynamic changes and unforeseen consequences that human ambition has brought (and will continue to bring) to a finite planet. |
Contributor Bio(s): Demuth, Bathsheba: - Bathsheba Demuth is an environmental historian at Brown University, specializing in the United States and Russia, and in the history of energy and past climates. She has lived in and studied Arctic communities across Eurasia and North America. |