**Winner of the 2021 AHA John H. Dunning PrizeLonglisted for the 2020 Cundill History PrizeNamed a Best Book of the Year by Nature, NPR, Library Journal, and Kirkus Reviews"A monument to a people and their land… an allegory of the world we have created." —Sven Beckert, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of Cotton: A Global History**Floating Coast is the first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic ...

OEuvre magistrale sur les crises climatique et énergétique, les ravages de la croissance à tout prix et les points d'intersection entre l'humain et le non-humain, ce livre est la première histoire totale d'une étendue de terre et d'eau glaciales située entre l’Alaska et la Russie, qu'on appelle la Béringie. Par-là sont passées, il y a 20 000 ans, les premières personnes qui ont pénétré sur le continent américain. Sans cesse mouvante, cette région-frontière forme, dans des conditions extrêm...

獲選《自然》年度十大好書、《科克斯書評》、《圖書館雜誌》、美國公共廣播電台和巴諾書店年度好書、《紐約時報》編輯選書榮獲美國歷史學會約翰．鄧寧獎、美國環境史學會喬治．馬什獎等諸多獎項鯨魚之死，是自然界中的能量循環原住民口中的犧牲奉獻與輪迴，捕鯨人眼中的帳簿數字與利潤。資本主義與共產主義的信徒，來到了這塊常年冰封的大地，將海裡游的鯨魚、陸上跑的馴鹿、地底埋的黃金提煉成文明的燃料。面對北極的嚴酷，究竟人類是否能成功征服自然？抑或束手無策而黯然敗退？在十九世紀捕鯨人、商人、政府官員、布爾什維克、美國人、俄羅斯人，這些外來者來到白令海峽之前，嚴寒雪白的北極大地，長久以來都是弓頭鯨、海象、馴鹿、狐狸等野生動物的家園，地底還蘊藏了黃金、石油、錫等豐富的礦藏。在這片土地上，自古以來居住著伊努皮亞特人、尤皮克人和楚克奇人，他們發展出與大自然共存的生活方式和價值觀，認為一切都是自然的循環與輪迴，一隻弓頭鯨會觀察人類是否值得獻上自己的生命，坦然死在獵人的魚叉之下。而人類必須抱持著敬...

Japan’s oceans demand our attention. Violent, prolific, and changeful, they define life and death on the archipelago: pushing the shore under the rush of tsunami, charging typhoon circulation, feeding millions, and seeding conflicts over territory and resources. And yet, Japan studies remains largely beholden to a terrestrial view of the world that is at odds with the importance of the sea. This “terrestrial bias” also means that on those occasions when oceans are recognized they are most ...

The first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada, Floating Coast breaks away from familiar narratives to provide a fresh and fascinating perspective on an overlooked landscape. The unforgiving territory along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans—the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia—before Americans and Europeans arrived with revolutionary ideas for progress. Rapidly, these frigid...

The definitive environmental history of the twentieth-century world, now updated for the twenty-first.Humans have long transformed the planet, scratching its surface for stones and ores, planting and harvesting crops, sparking fires for light and heat. But since the dawn of industrialization and especially since 1950, our impact has accelerated sharply. Economic, technological, and demographic changes have driven rapid and ongoing shifts in patterns of pollution, h...

The definitive environmental history of the twentieth-century world, now updated for the twenty-first.Humans have long transformed the planet, scratching its surface for stones and ores, planting and harvesting crops, sparking fires for light and heat. But since the dawn of industrialization and especially since 1950, our impact has accelerated sharply. Economic, technological, and demographic changes have driven rapid and ongoing shifts in patterns of pollution, h...