The Greater Gulf : Essays on the Environmental History of the Gulf of St. Lawrence

The Greater Gulf : Essays on the Environmental History of the Gulf of St. Lawrence

Publication Date

2020

Description

The largest estuary in the world, the Gulf of St Lawrence is defined broadly by an ecology that stretches from the upper reaches of the St Lawrence River to the Gulf Stream, and by a web of influences that reach from the heart of the continent to northern Europe. For more than a millennium, the gulf's strategic location and rich marine resources have made it a destination and a gateway, a cockpit and a crossroads, and a highway and a home. From Vinland the Good to the novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery, the Gulf has haunted the Western imagination. A transborder collaboration between Canadian and American scholars, The Greater Gulf represents the first concerted exploration of the environmental history - marine and terrestrial - of the Gulf of St Lawrence. Contributors tell many histories of a place that has been fished, fought over, explored, and exploited. The essays' defining themes resonate in today's charged atmosphere of quickening climate change as they recount stories of resilience played against ecological fragility, resistance at odds with accommodation, considered versus reckless exploitation, and real, imagined, and imposed identities. Reconsidering perceptions about borders and the spaces between and across land and sea, The Greater Gulf draws attention to a central place and part of North Atlantic and North American history. -- publisher

ISBN

9780773558687

Keywords

St. Lawrence Gulf, Greater Gulf, Environmental Conditions, History, Ecology, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Literature

Disciplines

Cultural History | Environmental Indicators and Impact Assessment | Environmental Monitoring

Publisher

McGill-Queen’s University Press

City

Montreal, Canada

Department

History

Comments

Claire E. Campbell, editor

Edward MacDonald, editor

Brian Payne, editor

Chapters:

Introduction: Environmental History in the Greater Gulf -- Claire E. Campbell, Edward MacDonald, Brian Payne, authors ; p. 3-12

“A Window Looking Seaward”: Finding Environmental History in the Writing of L.M. Montgomery -- Claire Campbell, author ; p. 283-318

Conclusion: Glimpses of a Greater Gulf / Claire Campbell, Edward MacDonald, Brian Payne, authors ; p. 345-351

The Greater Gulf : Essays on the Environmental History of the Gulf of St. Lawrence

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