The Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature

Name: The Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature
Brand: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
SKU: 9781554584222
Price: 39.99 EUR
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ISBN: 978-1-554-58422-2

Indigenous Peoples and the Great Lakes Environment

de Karl S. Hele (éditeur)

Maison d'édition : Wilfrid Laurier University Press

septembre 2013

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Résumé

Drawing on themes from John MacKenzie’s Empires of Nature and the Nature of Empires (1997), this book explores, from Indigenous or Indigenous-influenced perspectives, the power of nature and the attempts by empires (United States, Canada, and Britain) to control it. It also examines contemporary threats to First Nations communities from ongoing political, environmental, and social issues, and the efforts to confront and eliminate these threats to peoples and the environment. It becomes apparent that empire, despite its manifestations of power, cannot control or discipline humans and nature. Essays suggest new ways of looking at the Great Lakes watershed and the peoples and empires contained within it.

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Karl S. Hele (Edité par)

Karl S. Hele, a member of the Garden River First Nation community of Anishinaabeg, is an associate professor and the director of First Peoples Studies at Concordia University. He is the editor of Lines Drawn upon the Water: First Nations and the Great Lakes Borders and Borderlands (WLU Press, 2008).