With its long and well-documented history, Prince Edward Island makes a compelling case study for thousands of years of human interaction with a specific ecosystem. The pastoral landscapes, red sandstone cliffs, and small fishing villages of Canada’s “garden province” are appealing because they appear timeless, but they are as culturally constructed as they are shaped by the ebb and flow of the tides.
Bringing together experts from a multitude of disciplines, the essays in Time and a Place explore the island’s marine and terrestrial environment from its prehistory to its recent past. Beginning with PEI’s history as a blank slate - a land scraped by ice and then surrounded by rising seas - this mosaic of essays documents the arrival of flora, fauna, and humans, and the different ways these inhabitants have lived in this place over time. The collection offers policy insights for the province while also informing broader questions about the value of islands and other geographically bounded spaces for the study of environmental history and the crafting of global sustainability.
Putting PEI at the forefront of Canadian environmental history, Time and a Place is a remarkable accomplishment that will be eagerly received and read by historians, geographers, scholars of Canadian and island studies, and environmentalists.
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An Environmental History of Prince Edward Island
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Time and a Place
An Environmental History of Prince Edward Island
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Figures and Tables
- INTRODUCTION Promise and Premise: An Environmental History for Prince Edward Island
- I Imagining Islands: Islands and Environmental History
- 1 Muddying the Waters of Environmental History: Islands as Ecotones
- 2 Museums, Laboratories, Showcases: Prince Edward and Other Islands in Environmental History
- II Shaping Abegweit: People and Environmental History
- 3 The Palaeo-Environment and the Peopling of Prince Edward Island: An Archaeological Perspective
- 4 The Forests of Prince Edward Island, 1720–1900
- 5 Wildlife Matters: A Historical Overview of Public Consciousness of Habitat and Wildlife Loss on Prince Edward Island
- 6 The Mermaid’s Tresses: Seaplants in the Culture and Economy of Prince Edward Island
- III Harvesting Land and Sea: Development and the Environment on Prince Edward Island
- 7 The Fertile Crescent: Agricultural Land Use on Prince Edward Island, 1861–1971
- 8 Agriculture and the Environment on Prince Edward Island, 1969–2014: An Uneasy Relationship
- 9 Lines in the Water: Time and Place in a Fishery
- 10 The Landscapes of Tourism: Scenic Images in Prince Edward Island Tourism Literature
- 11 Two Centuries of Energy on Prince Edward Island
- APPENDIX Laying Down the Laws: A Table of Environment-Related Legislation on Prince Edward Island, 1770–1970
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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