David F Arnold

The Fishermen's Frontier

People and Salmon in Southeast Alaska

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This ambitious and multifaceted book provides a sweeping history of the southeastern Alaska fishery and the people who oriented their lives around it, breaking down conventional boundaries by incorporating Indian, labor, and environmental history, all the while addressing some of the most important themes in western scholarship." "-American Historical Review" "Books about fish tend to be tales of decline. A welcome exception is David's F. Arnold's portrait of the small-boat fishery and fishermen of Southeast Alaska. It is a fishery that is ecologically healthy, if not necessarily economically sound, and if that seems to be a paradox, that is because it is a fishing culture as varied and changeable as the fish themselves. Arnold's is a thoughtful and insightful examination." "-Oregon Historical Quarterly" David F. Arnold is professor of history at Columbia Basin College, Pasco, Washington. He has also worked extensively in the commercial salmon fisheries of Alaska.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780295991375
• ISBN-10: 0295991372
• Artikelnr.: 33376449

Autorenporträt

David F. Arnold. Foreword by William Cronon

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: On the Saltwater Margins of a Northern Frontier / William Cronon
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Fishermen's Frontier in Southeast Alaska
1. First Fishermen: The Aboriginal Salmon Fishery
2. The Industrial Transformation of the Indian Salmon Fishery, 1780s-1910s
3. Federal Conservation, Fish Traps, and the Struggle to Control the
Fishery, 1889-1959
4. Work, Nature, Race, and Culture on the Fishermen's Frontier, 1900s-1950s
5. The Closing of the Fishermen's Frontier, 1950s-2000s
Epilogue: Endangered Species?
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index