Northscapes : history, technology, and the making of northern environments

Table of Contents: “…AD 850-1250 / Jane Harrison -- In search of instructive models : the Russian state at a crossroads to conquering the north / Julia Lajus -- Traversal technology transfer : the transfer of agricultural knowledge between peripheries in the north / Jan Kunnas -- The sheep, the market, and the soil : environmental destruction in the Icelandic Highlands, 1880-1910 / Anna Gudrún Thórhallsdóttir, Árni Daniel Júlíusson, and Helga Ögmundardóttir -- More things on heaven and earth : modernism and reindeer in Chukotka and Alaska / Bathsheba Demuth -- A touch of frost : gender, class, technology, and the urban environment in an industrializing Nordic City / Simo Laakkonen -- North takes place in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada / Lisa Cooke -- Iceland and the north : an idea of belonging and being apart / Unnur Birna Karlsdóttir -- The networked north : thinking about the past, present, and future of environmental histories of the north / Finn Arne Jorgensen.…”
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