Demuth, Bathsheba
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
- ISBN 13:
- 9780393635164
- author:
- Demuth, Bathsheba
- format:
- Hardback
- publisher:
- WW Norton & Co
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2019
- Pages:
- 416
- Dimensions:
- 24.4 x 16.5 x 3.8 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- History, Europe, Russia,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
The Bering Strait has long been a place of human presence, home to indigenous communities such as the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia. As the site of an ongoing experiment in resource management under extreme scarcity, this unforgiving territory became a testing ground for the great modern ideologies of capitalism and communism. Bathsheba Demuth's groundbreaking exploration reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in this remote region into economic growth and state power over 150 years. Drawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people, as well as from archival sources, she shows how the social, political, and environmental clashed in this liminal space. Through the lens of the natural world, Demuth views human life and economics as fundamentally about cycles of energy, bringing a fresh perspective to the writing of human history. This book 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.
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