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The unforgiving territories along the Bering Strait had long been home to humansthe Iñupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russiabefore American and European colonization. Rapidly, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How, under conditions of extreme scarcity, would modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved?</p><p>Drawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region, Bathsheba Demuth presents a profound tale of the dynamic changes and unforeseen consequences that human ambition has brought (and will continue to bring) to a finite planet.</p>...2561370Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait251349https://www.gandhi.com.mx/floating-coast-an-environmental-history-of-the-bering-strait-9780393635171/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2770383/67ca045d-6422-4a32-b831-5c0f08eb33f2.jpg?v=638384428613600000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20199780393635171_W3siaWQiOiI1Y2U2ZjliZi00ZTgwLTRmYmYtODRkNy0yN2JhY2RkOTkwZDgiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjM1OSwiZGlzY291bnQiOjEwMSwic2VsbGluZ1ByaWNlIjoyNTgsImluY2x1ZGVzVGF4Ijp0cnVlLCJwcmljZVR5cGUiOiJXaG9sZXNhbGUiLCJjdXJyZW5jeSI6Ik1YTiIsImZyb20iOiIyMDI0LTEyLTAxVDAwOjAwOjAwWiIsInJlZ2lvbiI6Ik1YIiwiaXNQcmVvcmRlciI6ZmFsc2V9XQ==9780393635171_<p>Winner of the 2021 AHA John H. 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Rapidly, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How, under conditions of extreme scarcity, would modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved?</p><p>Drawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region, Bathsheba Demuth presents a profound tale of the dynamic changes and unforeseen consequences that human ambition has brought (and will continue to bring) to a finite planet.</p>(*_*)9780393635171_<p>Winner of the 2021 AHA John H. Dunning Prize<br />Longlisted for the 2020 Cundill History Prize<br />Named a Best Book of the Year by <em>Nature</em>, NPR, <em>Library Journal</em>, and <em>Kirkus Reviews</em></p><p>"A monument to a people and their land an allegory of the world we have created." 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Dunning Prize<br />Longlisted for the 2020 Cundill History Prize<br />Named a Best Book of the Year by <em>Nature</em>, NPR, <em>Library Journal</em>, and <em>Kirkus Reviews</em></p><p>"A monument to a people and their land an allegory of the world we have created." Sven Beckert, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist <em>Empire of Cotton: A Global History</em></p><p><em>Floating Coast</em> is the first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada. The unforgiving territories along the Bering Strait had long been home to humansthe Iñupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russiabefore American and European colonization. Rapidly, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How, under conditions of extreme scarcity, would modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved?</p><p>Drawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region, Bathsheba Demuth presents a profound tale of the dynamic changes and unforeseen consequences that human ambition has brought (and will continue to bring) to a finite planet.</p>...9780393635171_W. W. Norton & Companylibro_electonico_9714dc52-08b8-3ac7-b764-85c728f5f2f8_9780393635171;9780393635171_9780393635171Bathsheba DemuthInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/wwnorton-epub-8022d26a-b9f7-4a0f-934d-9de51b3d119d.epub2019-08-20T00:00:00+00:00W. W. Norton & Company