Nature, place, and story : rethinking historic sites in Canada / Claire Elizabeth Campbell.

Main entry:

Campbell, Claire Elizabeth, 1974-

Title & Author:

Nature, place, and story : rethinking historic sites in Canada / Claire Elizabeth Campbell.

Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017].

Description:

viii, 214 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies series ; 8

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Gateway to a new world : L'Anse aux Meadows -- Idyll and industry : Grand Pré -- Wilderness, lost and found : Fort William -- Variety, heritage, adventure, and park : he Forks of the Red River -- Nature's gentlemen and a nation's frontier : the Bar U Ranch.

Summary:

"National historic sites commemorate decisive moments in the making of Canada. But when seen through an environmental lens, these sites become artifacts of the occupation and transformation of nature into a nation. In an age of pressing discussions about environmental sustainability, there is a growing need to know more about the history of our relationship with the natural world and what lessons these places of public history, regional identity, and national narrative can teach us. Nature, Place, and Story provides new interpretations for five of Canada's largest and most iconic historic sites: L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland; Grand Pré, Nova Scotia; Fort William, Ontario; the Forks of the Red River, Manitoba; and the Bar U Ranch, Alberta. At each location, Claire Campbell rewrites public history as environmental history, revealing the country's debt to the power and fragility of the natural world, and the relevance of the past to understanding climate change, agricultural sustainability, wilderness protection, urban reclamation, and fossil fuel extraction. From the medieval Atlantic to modern ranch lands, environmental history speaks directly to contemporary questions about the health of Canada's habitat. Bringing together public and environmental history in an entirely new way, Nature, Place, and Story is a lively and ambitious call for a new way to view and comprehend natural heritage."--Site de l'éditeur.

ISBN:

9780773551251 (cloth)
0773551255
9780773551770 (pdf)
0773551778
9780773551787 (epub)

Subject:

Historic sites Canada.
Public history Canada.
Lieux historiques Canada.
Histoire appliquée Canada.
Ecology.
Historic sites.
Public history.
Sites historiques Canada.
Sites naturels Canada.
Canada Environmental conditions History.
L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site (N.L.)
Grand-Pré National Historic Site (N.S.)
Bar U Ranch National Historic Site (Alta.)
Fort William Historical Park (Ont.)
Forks National Historic Site, The (Winnipeg, Man.)
Canada Conditions environnementales Histoire.
Canada.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies series ; 8.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 297104
Call No.: BIB 243412
Status: Available

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