Floating coast : an environmental history of the Bering Strait

Responsibility: Bathsheba Demuth.
Edition: First edition.
Publication: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Copyright notice: ©2019
Physical description: xiv, 416 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

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Creators/Contributors

Author/Creator: Demuth, Bathsheba, author.

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Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Prologue: The migration north
Whale country
Whale fall
The floating coast
The waking ice
The moving tundra
The climate of change
The unquiet earth
Elements of redemption
Caloric values
Species of enlightenment
Epilogue: The transformation of matter.

Summary

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, the area became the site of an experiment and the modern ideologies of production and consumption, capitalism and communism were subject to the pressures of arctic scarcity. 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 post-industrial age, Floating Coast delivers warnings and poses provocative questions about human desires and needs in relation to environmental sustainability.
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