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Introduction -- 1. Navigating northern environmental history / Stephen Bocking.
Part 1. Forming northern colonial environments. 2. Moving through the margins : the "All-Canadian" route to the Klondike and the strange experience of the Teslin Trail / Jonathan Peyton -- 3. The experimental state of nature : science and the Canadian Reindeer Project in the interwar north / Andrew Stuhl -- 4. Shaped by the land : an envirotechnical history of a Canadian bush plane / Marionne Cronin -- 5. Many tiny traces : antimodernism and northern exploration between the wars / Tina Adcock.
Part 2. Transformations and the modern north. 6. From subsistence to nutrition : the Canadian state's involvement in food and diet in the north, 1900-1970 / Liza Piper -- 7. Hope in the barrenlands : northern development and sustainability's Canadian history / Tina Loo -- 8. Western Electric turns north : technicians and the transformation of the Cold War Arctic / Matthew Farish and P. Whitney Lackenbauer.
Part 3. Environmental history and the contemporary north. 9. "That's the place where I was born" : history, narrative ecology, and politics in Canada's north / Hans M. Carlson -- 10. Imposing territoriality : First Nation land claims and the transformation of human-environment relations in the Yukon / Paul Nadasdy -- 11. Ghost towns and zombie mines : the historical dimensions of mine abandonment, reclamation, and redevelopment in the Canadian north / Arn Keeling and John Sandlos -- 12. Toxic surprises : contaminants and knowledge in the northern environment / Stephen Bocking -- 13. Climate anti-politics : scale, locality, and Arctic climate change / Emilie Cameron -- Conclusion. 14. Encounters in northern environmental history / Stephen Bocking.
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