Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Demuth, Bathsheba
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Demuth, Bathsheba

Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait

Whales and walruses, caribou and fox, gold and oil: through the stories of these animals and resources,...
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Author: Bathsheba Demuth
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Demuth, Bathsheba

Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait

$72.69
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Demuth, Bathsheba

Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait

$72.69
Author: Bathsheba Demuth
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

Whales and walruses, caribou and fox, gold and oil: through the stories of these animals and resources, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years.

The first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada, Floating Coast breaks away from familiar narratives to provide a fresh and fascinating perspective on an overlooked landscape. The unforgiving territory along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans--the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia--before Americans and Europeans arrived with revolutionary ideas for progress. Rapidly, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How, under conditions of extreme scarcity, would the great 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, as well as from archival sources, Demuth shows how the social, the political, and the environmental clashed in this liminal space. Through the lens of the natural world, she views human life and economics as fundamentally about cycles of energy, bringing a fresh and visionary spin to the writing of human history.

Floating Coast is a profoundly resonant tale of the dynamic changes and unforeseen consequences that immense human needs and ambitions have brought, and will continue to bring, to a finite planet.



Author: Bathsheba Demuth
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/20/2019
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.20w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9780393635164


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/08/2019
Library Journal 06/01/2019 pg. 142
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001

About the Author
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.
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