"Peter Dease's journal, reproduced in full, is supplemented by a brief introduction to each section and detailed annotations that clarify and elaborate the text. By including relevant correspondence to and from expedition members, Barr captures the original words of the particip…
As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty are once more drawing international attention. The promise of new sources of mineral wealth and energy, and of new transportation routes, has seen countries expand their sovereignt…
Chapter 14. Energy of the Russian Arctic Under the Belt and Road Initiative and Greater Eurasia: A View from China and India (Kobilzhon Zoidov, Alexei Medkov) -- Chapter 15. Rethinking the Year-Round Navigation via the Norther Sea Route (Vladimir Samotuga, Aleksey Smirnov, Dmitr…
This study of the controversy surrounding the hunting of seals in the Canadian Arctic concentrates on the Inuit of Clyde River, Baffin Island, and traces the evolution of the traditional subsistence economy and social structure to the present cash economy, and the effects of ani…
Globalization and the circumpolar North
"As the circumpolar North emerges as a significant presence in world affairs, it becomes increasingly exposed to globalization. This is the first book to describe those effects--political, economic, and cultural--in all their complexity. Gathering literature by leading political…
"As the circumpolar North emerges as a significant presence in world affairs, it becomes increasingly exposed to globalization. This is the first book to describe those effects---political, economic, and cultural---in all their complexity. Gathering literature by leading politic…
This comprehensive treatment of the environmental history of northern North America offers a compelling account of the complex encounters of people, technology, culture, and ecology that shaped modern-day Canada and Alaska. Climate change, logging, drilling, prospecting, and hun…
"Between the arrival of the first humans tens of thousands of years ago and the activities of mining and logging companies in the present, the environment of the North American Arctic has been shaped by people and their activities. Canada and Arctic North America is the first co…
"Between the arrival of the first humans tens of thousands of years ago and the activities of mining and logging companies in the present, the environment of the North American Arctic has been shaped by people and their activities. Canada and Arctic North America is the first co…
