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Nelson Education
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English
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336

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2008, Nelson Education
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Table of Contents

An introduction, in theory and practice / Alan MacEachern
Section I : Approaching environmental history. Travels with George Perkins Marsh : notes on a journey into environmental history / Graeme Wynn
Ice, worms, and dirt : the power of nature in North American history / Donald Worster
Section II : Reading landscapes. Historical archaeology and the maritime cultural landscape of the Atlantic Fishery / Peter E. Pope
Writing, ritual, and folklore : imagining the cultural geography of voyageurs / Carolyn Podruchny
Section III : Manipulating scale. People and animals in the Arctic : mediating between ingredients and western knowledge / Lyle Dick
Colloquial meteorology / Liza Piper
History as experiment : microhistory and environmental history / R.W. Sandwell
Section IV : Learning by looking. Seeing and not seeing : landscape art as a historical source / Colin M. Coates
Finding Emily / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands
Section V : Finding the nation in nature. Trust in bread and bologna : promoting prairie wheat in the Twentieth century / John F. Varty
Lost in shipping : Canadian National Parks and the international donation of wildlife / Alan MacEachern
Section VI : Reading cities. The urbanization of nature : water networks and green spaces in Montreal / Michéle Dagenais
Thinking forest : urban forestry at the University of Toronto in the 1960s / Joanna Dean
Section VII : Thinking spatially. Mapping cold war Canada : George Kimble's Canadian military geography, 1949 / Matthew Evenden
Reconstructing reforestation : changing land-use patterns along the Saint-François River in the eastern townships / Stéphane Castonguay and Diane Saint-Laurent
Section VIII : Negotiating expertise. Nature's stories? Pursuing science in environmental history / Stephen Bocking
It costs something to learn something : property rights, information costs, and the struggle at fish lake / William J. Turkel.

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Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
304.2/0971
Library of Congress
GE160.C2 M48 2008

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xv, 336 p.
Number of pages
336

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OL37015621M
Internet Archive
methodmeaninginc0000unse
ISBN 10
0176441166
ISBN 13
9780176441166
OCLC/WorldCat
181492069

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