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alaska
arctic
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beringia
capitalism
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chukchi
communism
ecology
economics
energy
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fossil fuels
gold
gulag
indigenous people
inupiat
mining
native
natural resources
russia
soviet union
tundra
united states
whale hunting
whales
whaling
wilderness
yupik
Product details
- ISBN 9780393358322
- Weight: 348g
- Dimensions: 137 x 211mm
- Publication Date: 25 Aug 2020
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Across Russia’s easternmost shores and through the territories of the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how, over 150 years, people turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power.
Beginning in the 1840s, capitalism and then communism, with their ideas of progress, transformed the area around the Bering Strait into a historical experiment in remaking ecosystems. Rendered even more urgent in a warming climate, Floating Coast is a profoundly resonant tale of the impact that human needs and ambitions have brought (and will continue to bring) to a finite planet.
• Shortlisted for the The Pushkin House Book Prize 2020.
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.
