Publication of “Moving Natures: Mobility and Environment in Canadian History”

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The newest edited collection in the NiCHE-University of Calgary Press “Canadian History and Environment Series” has just been published. Moving Natures is edited by Ben Bradley, Jay Young, and Colin Coates and features a host of NiCHE members. As is the case with every book in this series, it is simultaneously available in print and open access (http://press.ucalgary.ca/books/9781552388594).

9781552388594
Moving Natures
Front matter
PART I: Production, Pathways, and Supply
1. Maitland’s Moment: Turning Nova Scotia’s Forests into Ships for the Global Commodity Trade in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
2. Forest, Stream and . . . Snowstorms? Seasonality, Nature, and Mobility on the Intercolonial Railway, 1876–1914
3. Supply Networks in the Age of Steamboat Navigation: Lakeside Mobility in Muskoka, Ontario, 1880–1930
4. Seasonality and Mobility in Northern Saskatchewan, 1890–1950
5. Creating the St. Lawrence Seaway: Mobility and a Modern Megaproject
6. Soils and Subways: Excavating Environments during the Building of Rapid Transit in Toronto, 1944–1968
7. The Windsor-Detroit Borderland: The Making of a Key North American Environment of Mobility
PART II: Consumption, Landscape, and Leisure
8. Views from the Deck: Union Steamship Cruises on Canada’s Pacific Coast, 1889–1958
9. Producing and Consuming Spaces of Sport and Leisure: The Encampments and Regattas of the American Canoe Association, 1880–190
10. What Was Driving Golf? Mobility, Nature, and the Making of Canadian Leisure Landscapes, 1870–1930
11. Rails, Trails, Roads, and Lodgings: Networks of Mobility and the Touristic Development of “The Canadian Pacific Rockies,” 18
12. Automobile Tourism in Quebec and Ontario: Development, Promotion, and Representations, 1920–1945
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Daniel Macfarlane

Daniel is an Associate Professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at Western Michigan University. He is co-editor of The Otter-La loutre and is a member of the NiCHE executive board. A transnational environmental historian who focuses on Canadian-American border waters, particularly in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence basin, Daniel is the author or co-editor of four books, including the recently-published "Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World's Most Famous Waterfall." His in-progress research projects include a book on Canada-US environmental/energy diplomacy and a book on the environmental history of Lake Ontario. Website: https://danielmacfarlane.wordpress.com Twitter: @Danny__Mac__

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