In an era of increasing environmental awareness, Canadians are becoming more and more curious about the context of environmental action and policy. Canadian Environmental History puts into historical perspective the complex and often reciprocal relationships that develop between human societies and their environment.

PrefacePart I: Introduction To Environmental HistoryChapter One: Doing Environmental History Donald WorsterChapter Two: The Uses of Environmental History William CrononChapter Three: Eve: Nature and Narrative Carolyn MerchantChapter Four: A Death-Defying Attempt to Articulate a Coherent Definition of Environmental History Douglas R. WeinerPart II: Pre-Contact Environmental HistoryChapter Five: The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of the Americas in 1492 William M. DenevanChapter Six: Fire Shepard KrechPart III: Biology And Imperialism In North American Environmental HistoryChapter Seven: Ecological Imperialism: The Overseas Migration of Western Europeans as a Biological Phenomenon Alfred W. CrosbyChapter Eight: Making a Garden out of a Wilderness Ramsay CookChapter Nine: Averting Disaster: The Hudson's Bay Company and Smallpox in Western Canada during the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries Paul HackettPart IV: Pre-Industrial Resources And The Changing Culture Of NatureChapter Ten: Marketing Wildlife: The Hudson's Bay Company and the Pacific Northwest, 1821-1849 Lorne HammondChapter Eleven: Like ""The Thames towards Putney"": The Appropriation of Landscape in Lower Canada Colin M. CoatesChapter Twelve: Killing the Canadian Buffalo, 1821-1881 William A. DobakPart V: IndustrializationChapter Thirteen: Rivers of Sawdust: The Battle over Industrial Pollution in Canada, 1865-1903R. Peter GillisChapter Fourteen: Blighted Areas and Obnoxious Industries: Constructing Environmental Inequality on an Industrial Waterfront, Hamilton, Ontario, 1890-1960 Ken Cruikshank and Nancy B. BouchierPart VI: Sustainability And ConservationChapter Fifteen: ""Let Us Heed the Voice of Youth"": Laundry Detergents, Phosphates, and the Emergence of the Environmental Movement in Ontario Jennifer ReadChapter Sixteen: Where the Scientists Roam: Ecology, Management, and Bison in Northern Canada John SandlosChapter Seventeen: Changing Ecologies: Preservation in Four National Parks, 1935-1965 Alan MacEachern

The material selected represents some of the most current Canadian contributions in environmental history. Its availability to students in a new reader is most welcome."" - George Colpitts, University of Calgary