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  • Civilizing Nature

    National Parks in Global Historical Perspective

    Edited by Bernhard Gissibl, Sabine Höhler, Patrick Kupper ...
    Series Book 1 - Environment in History: International Perspectives
    National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon. The development of these ecological and political systems cannot be understood as a simple reaction to mounting environmental problems, nor can it be explained by the spread of ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • Invisible Lines

    Boundaries and Belts That Define the World

    by Maxim Samson ...
    An indispensable guide to seeing and understanding our planet through the divisions we make, find, or feel.Our world has innumerable boundaries. They range from the obvious—an ocean, or a mountain range—to subtle differences in language or climate. We cross boundaries all the time, sometimes without realizing it. They can be subjective: our perceptions of a boundary may not be shared by others. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Haida Gwaii Lesson

    A Strategic Playbook for Indigenous Sovereignty

    by Mark Dowie ...
    In The Haida Gwaii Lesson, former University of California journalism professor and Mother Jones editor Mark Dowie shares the story of the Haida people, relating their struggle for sovereignty and title over their ancient homeland as a strategic playbook for other indigenous peoples.For over 10,000 years, the Haida people thrived on a rugged and fecund archipelago south of Alaska, which they ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Anarcho-Indigenism

    Conversations on Land and Freedom

    by Gord Hill, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Clifton Ariwakehte Nicholas, Véronique Hébert, Freda Huson, Toghestiy, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui ...
    "Anarchists have much to learn from Indigenous struggles for decolonization. [A] thought-provoking collection" Lesley J. Wood, Professor, York University, Toronto**"Vigorously affirming anarchism’s plurality, the authors make a powerful case for the reconfiguration of anticolonial struggle"**Ruth Kinna, Professor, Loughborough UniversityAs early as the end of the nineteenth century, anarchists ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Morning Star Rising

    The Politics of Decolonization in West Papua

    by Camellia Webb-Gannon, Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua, April K. Henderson ...
    Series series Indigenous Pacifics
    That Indonesia’s ongoing occupation of West Papua continues to be largely ignored by world governments is one of the great moral and political failures of our time. West Papuans have struggled for more than fifty years to find a way through the long night of Indonesian colonization. However, united in their pursuit of merdeka (freedom) in its many forms, what holds West Papuans together is greater ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century

    by Neil S Forkey ...
    Series series Themes in Canadian History
    Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an ideal foundation for undergraduates and general readers on the history of Canada's complex environmental issues. Through clear, easy-to-understand case studies, Neil Forkey integrates the ongoing interplay of humans and the natural world into national, continental, and global contexts.Forkey's engaging survey addresses ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • A Blue New Deal

    Why We Need a New Politics for the Ocean

    by Chris Armstrong ...
    An urgent account of the state of our oceans today—and what we must do to protect themThe ocean sustains life on our planet, from absorbing carbon to regulating temperatures, and, as we exhaust the resources to be found on land, it is becoming central to the global market. But today we are facing two urgent challenges at sea: massive environmental destruction, and spiraling inequality in the ocean ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Age of Ecology

    by Joachim Radkau ...
    This book is the first major study of the history of environmentalism, from its origins in romanticism and the nature cults of the late 18th century to the global environmental movements of today.Radkau shows that this is not a single story of the steady ascent of environmentalism but rather a multiplicity of stories, each with its own dramatic tension: between single-issue movements and the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Fishing in Contested Waters

    Place & Community in Burnt Church/Esgenoopetitj

    by Sarah King ...
    After the Supreme Court of Canada’s 1999 Marshall decision recognized Mi’kmaw fishers’ treaty right to fish, the fishers entered the inshore lobster fishery across Atlantic Canada. At Burnt Church/Esgenoôpetitj, New Brunswick, the Mi’kmaw fishery provoked violent confrontations with neighbours and the Canadian government. Over the next two years, boats, cottages, and a sacred grove were burned, ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Forest and Labor in Madagascar

    From Colonial Concession to Global Biosphere

    by Genese Marie Sodikoff ...
    A study of the demands of economic development and ecological conservation on the African island country.Protecting the unique plants and animals that live on Madagascar while fueling economic growth has been a priority for the Malagasy state, international donors, and conservation NGOs since the late 1980s. Forest and Labor in Madagascar shows how poor rural workers who must make a living from ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pangayaw and Decolonizing Resistance

    Anarchism in the Philippines

    by Bas Umali ...
    The legacy of anarchist ideas in the Philippines was first brought to the attention of a global audience by Benedict Anderson’s book Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination. Activist-author Bas Umali proves with stunning evidence that these ideas are still alive in a country that he would like to see replaced by an “archepelagic confederation.”Pangayaw and Decolonizing ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conservation Through Cultural Survival

    Indigenous Peoples And Protected Areas

    by Paul Sneed, Bernard Nietschmann, Terry DeLacy Dean, Peter Herlihy ...
    For more than a century the establishment of national parks and protected areas was a major threat to the survival of indigenous people. The creation of parks based on wilderness ideals outlawed traditional ways of life and forced from their homelands peoples who had shaped and preserved local ecosystems for centuries.Today such tragic conflicts are being superseded by new alliances for ... Read more

    $67.09 CAD