The industrialization of Canada's Subarctic relied upon the region's large northwestern lakes: Winnipeg, Athabasca, Great Slave, and Great Bear Between 1921 and 1960, these lakes comprised a seam in the Canadian interior where industrial economies took root, transgressing political geographies and superseding the historically dominant ожжэв fur trade The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada reveals the history of human impact upon the North It provides a baseline, grounded in historical and scientific evidence, for measuring environmental change in the Subarctic Liza Piper examines the sustainability of industrial economies, the value of resource exploitation in volatile ecosystems, and the human consequences of northern environmental change She also addresses northern communities' historical resistance to external resource development and their fight for survival in the face of intensifying environmental and economic pressures --Liza Piper is an assistant professor of history at the University of Alberta -.  Фотоальбом-фолиант2010 г Мягкая обложка, 424 стр ISBN 0774815337.