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Rough Poets - Reading Oil-Worker Poetry

by Melanie Dennis Unrau

~~39,74€~~ 35,77€ 10% OFF

 Oil workers are often typecast as rough: embodying the toxic masculinity, racism, consumerist excess, and wilful ignorance of the extractive industries and petrostates they work for. But their poetry troubles these assumptions, revealing the fear, confusion, betrayal, and indignation hidden beneath tough personas.The Rough Poets presents poetry by workers in the Canadian oil and gas industry, collecting and closely reading texts published between 1938 and 2019: S.C. Ells’s Northland Trails, Peter Christensen’s Rig Talk, Dymphny Dronyk’s Contrary Infatuations, Mathew Henderson’s The Lease, Naden Parkin’s A Relationship with Truth, Lesley Battler’s Endangered Hydrocarbons, and Lindsay Bird’s Boom Time. These writers are uniquely positioned, Melanie Dennis Unrau argues, both as petropoets who write poetry about oil and as theorists of petropoetics with unique knowledge about how to make and unmake worlds that depend on fossil fuels. Their ambivalent, playful, crude, and honest petropoetry shows that oil workers grieve the environmental and social impacts of their work, worry about climate change and the futures of their communities, and desire jobs and ways of life that are good, safe, and just.How does it feel to be a worker in the oil and gas industry in a climate emergency, facing an energy transition that threatens your way of life? Unrau takes up this question with the respect, care, and imagination necessary to be an environmentalist reader in solidarity with oil workers.
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Lives Of Lake Ontario - An Environmental History

by Daniel Macfarlane

~~25,16€~~ 22,64€ 10% OFF

 Lake Ontario has profoundly influenced the historical evolution of North America. For centuries it has enabled and enriched the societies that crowd¬ed its edges, from fertile agricultural landscapes to energy production systems to sprawling cities.In The Lives of Lake Ontario Daniel Macfarlane details the lake’s relationship with the Indigenous nations, settler cultures, and modern countries that have occupied its shores. He examines the myriad ways Canada and the United States have used and abused this resource: through dams and canals, drinking water and sewage, trash and pollution, fish and foreign species, industry and manufacturing, urbanization and infrastructure, population growth and biodiversity loss. Serving as both bridge and buffer between the two countries, Lake Ontario came to host Canada’s largest megalopolis. Yet its transborder exploitation exacted a tremendous ecological cost, leading people to abandon the lake. Innovative regulations in the later twentieth century, such as the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreements, have partially improved Lake Ontario’s health.Despite signs that communities are reengaging with Lake Ontario, it remains the most degraded of the Great Lakes, with new and old problems alike exacerbated by climate change. The Lives of Lake Ontario demonstrates that this lake is both remarkably resilient and uniquely vulnerable.
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Greater Gulf - Essays On The Environmental History Of The Gulf Of St Lawrence

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 Essays that rethink the geographical and historical dimensions of the Gulf of St Lawrence and explore its ecological roles.
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At The Wilderness Edge - The Rise Of The Antidevelopment Movement On Canada''S West Coast

by J.I. Little

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 Exploring the beginnings of the antidevelopment protest movements in British Columbia's Lower Mainland.
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Subjugation Of Canadian Wildlife - Failures Of Principle And Policy

by Max Foran

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 A wake-up call to reform conservation practices and policies and to recognize the value of wildlife in Canada before further extinction.
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Flax Americana - A History Of The Fibre And Oil That Covered A Continent

by Joshua Macfadyen

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 How urban painters and prairie farmers brought a flax and oilseed empire to North America.
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Nature, Place, And Story - Rethinking Historic Sites In Canada

by Claire Elizabeth Campbell

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 Imagining how prominent national historic sites might confront critical issues in environmental history.
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Permanent Weekend - Nature, Leisure, And Rural Gentrification

by John Michels

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 A timely examination of the causes and consequences of rural gentrification.
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Being Neighbours - Cooperative Work And Rural Culture, 1830-1960

by Catharine Anne Wilson

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 Throughout history, farm families have shared work and equipment with their neighbours to complete labour-intensive, time-sensitive, and time-consuming tasks. They benefitted materially and socially from these voluntary, flexible, loosely structured networks of reciprocal assistance, making neighbourliness a vital but overlooked aspect of agricultural change. Being Neighbours takes us into the heart of neighbourhood - the set of people near and surrounding the family - through an examination of work bees in southern Ontario from 1830 to 1960. The bee was a special event where people gathered to work on a neighbour’s farm like bees in a hive for a wide variety of purposes, including barn raising, logging, threshing, quilting, turkey plucking, and apple paring. Drawing on the diaries of over one hundred men and women, Catharine Wilson takes readers into families’ daily lives, the intricacies of their labour exchange, and their workways, feasts, and hospitality. Through the prism of the bee and a close reading of the diaries, she uncovers the subtle social politics of mutual dependency, the expectations neighbours had of each other, and their ways of managing conflict and crisis. This book adds to the literature on cooperative work that focuses on evaluating its economic efficiency and complicates histories of capitalism that place communal values at odds with market orientation. Beautifully written, engaging, and richly detailed and illustrated, Being Neighbours reveals the visceral textures of rural life.
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Cultivating Community - Women And Agricultural Fairs In Ontario

by Jodey Nurse

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 Cultivating Community explores womenâ€™s critical involvement in agricultural fairsâ€™ growth and prosperity in Ontario throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Examining womenâ€™s roles as society members, exhibitors, performers, volunteers, and fairgoers, the book shows how women used fairs to present different versions of rural womanhood.
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Reading The Diaries Of Henry Trent - The Everyday Life Of A Canadian Englishman, 1842-1898

by J.I. Little

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 The personal journals examined in Reading the Diaries of Henry Trent are not the witty, erudite, and gracefully written exercises that have drawn the attention of most biographers and literary scholars. Prosaic, ungrammatical, and poorly spelled, the fifteen surviving volumes of Henry Trent''s hitherto unexamined diaries are nevertheless a treasure for the social and cultural historian. Henry Trent was born in England in 1826, the son of a British naval officer. When he was still a boy, his father decided to begin a new life as a landed gentleman and moved the family to Lower Canada. At the age of sixteen Trent began writing in a diary, which he maintained, intermittently, for more than fifty years. As a lonely youth he narrates days spent hunting and trapping in the woods owned by his father. On the threshold of manhood and in search of a vocation, he writes about his experiences in London and then on Vancouver Island during the gold rush. And finally, as the father of a large family, he describes the daily struggle to make ends meet on the farm he inherited in Quebec''s lower St Francis valley. As it follows Trent through the different stages of his long life, Reading the Diaries of Henry Trent explores the complexities of class and colonialism, gender roles within the rural family, and the transition from youth to manhood to old age. The diaries provide a rare opportunity to read the thoughts and follow the experiences of a man who, like many Victorian-era immigrants of the privileged class, struggled to adapt to the Canadian environment during the rise of the industrial age.
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Miramichi Fire - A History

by Alan Maceachern

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 How one of Canada's greatest natural disasters has been remembered and forgotten.
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Consumers In The Bush - Shopping In Rural Upper Canada

by Douglas Mccalla

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 The everyday material world of rural Canadian families in the nineteenth century.
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Once And Future Great Lakes Country - An Ecological History

by John L. Riley

31,79€ + 10% CARD

 A passionate, wide-ranging history of the landscapes around the Great Lakes.

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