Graeme Wynn
Biographic Data
| ID | 457538 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graeme Wynn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graeme |
| FAMILY NAME | Wynn |
| SIGNATURE | WYNN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Notes from the Icehouse
This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0
Contemplating Fantastic Frontiers
Focusing on historical geographer Cole Harris’ published contributions to scholarship, this article offers perspective on a long, productive, and influential career. It weighs the influence of contingency and context on Harris’ oeuvre, points to some of the intellectual stimuli that shaped it, offers an initial assessment of its impacts, and considers how intellectual labour is shaped by the circumstances of its production
Forest History and Environmental History
Forests, Frontiers, and Extractivism
Cole Harris
In an invited paper for a special centenary issue of The Canadian Geographerhis first in this journal-in 1967, he described Canadian historical geography as a sparsely tilled field (Harris, 1967).Barely thirty years old, already writing a now familiar spare, crystalline prose intended (he often said) to achieve maximum clarity with minimum words, Cole claimed that "the land" was geography's central object of inquiry.He also identified potential r…
Against the Tides
Against the Tides tells the compelling story of the rehabilitation of the Maritime marshlands, a project that reshaped not only the landscape of the Bay of Fundy region but the communities that depended on it.
On the Edge of … the Rabbit Hole
All in the golden afternoon | Full leisurely we glide; | For both our oars, with little skill, | By little arms are plied, | While little hands make vain pretence | Our wanderings to guide. – Lewis
Scoping Yeotopia
Prompted by the retirement of Professor Thomas Warden Hastings Brooking from the Department of History at the University of Otago, and his expressed interest in writing a new book on the making of rural New Zealand, this article is the product of a particular moment. Attempting to weigh the contributions of a busy scholarly life that is still actively unfolding, these pages look backward in hope of boosting onward momentum. They triangulate and r…
Notes from the Icehouse
Fixing Niagara Falls
Since the late nineteenth century, Niagara Falls has been heavily engineered to generate energy behind a flowing façade designed to appeal to tourists. Fixing Niagara Falls reveals the technological feats and cross-border politics that facilitated the transformation of one of the most important natural sites in North America. Daniel Macfarlane details how engineers, bureaucrats, and politicians conspired to manipulate the world’s most famous wate…
Framing an Ecology of Hope
Responding to the social, political, economic, and ecological challenges that confront contemporary society, this article—the 2019 Presidential Address to the American Society for Environmental History—argues that critique and resistance, married with a quest for alternative possibilities, will serve us better than a doleful narrative of decline. It seeks hope by reengaging with the ideas of scholars who earlier lamented despoliation and envisage…
How it all comes together – Sometimes
Eric Pawson
After an academic career extending over four decades
The Origin and Growth of Geography as a Discipline at South African Universities
West Ham and the River Lea
During the nineteenth century, London’s population grew by more than five million as people flocked from the countryside to the city to take up jobs in shops and factories. In West Ham and the River Lea, Jim Clifford explores the growth of London’s most populous independent suburb and the degradation of its second largest river, bringing to light the consequences of these developments on social democracy and urban politics in Greater London. Draw…
The First Green Wave
In The First Green Wave, Ryan O'Connor traces the rise of the environmental movement in Toronto, home to one of Canada's earliest and most dynamic communities of environmental activists, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s. At the heart of the story is Pollution Probe, an organization founded in 1969 by students and faculty at the University of Toronto. Living up to its motto ("Do it!") in its first year of operation, Pollution Probe confronted T…
Empires of Nature and the Nature of Empires
Birds on the wing
Key Concepts in Historical Geography
Power from the North
In the 1970s, Hydro-Qu bec declared in a publicity campaign "We Are Hydro-Qu b cois." The slogan symbolized the extent to which hydroelectric development in the North had come to both reflect and fuel French Canada's aspirations. The slogan helped Quebecers relate to the province's northern territory and to accept the exploitation of its resources. In Power from the North, Caroline Desbiens explores how this culture of hydroelectricity helped sha…
Reflections on the American environment
Temagami’s Tangled Wild
Temagami's Tangled Wild traces the processes and power relationships through which the Temagami area of northeastern Ontario has become emblematic of Canadian wilderness. In this sophisticated analysis, Jocelyn Thorpe uncovers how struggles over meaning, racialized and gendered identities, and land have made Temagami a site of wild Canadian nature. Despite the fact that the Teme-Augama Anishnabai have for many generations understood the region as…
The 15th International Conference of Historical Geographers
The Nurture of Nature
Thousands of children attended summer camps in twentieth-century Ontario. Did parents simply want a break, or were broader developments at play? The Nurture of Nature explores the history of summer camps and sheds light on a wider phenomenon: the divided consciousness that informs modern assumptions about nature, technology, and identity. Wall examines how two competing tendencies antimodern nostalgia and modern sensibilities about the landscape,…
What Is Water?
We all know what water is, and we often take it for granted. Because it seems so natural, we seldom question how we see water. But the spectre of a worldwide water crisis suggests that there might be something fundamentally wrong with the way we think about water. Jamie Linton dives into the history of the modern concept of water, that water can be stripped of its wider environmental, social, and cultural contexts and reduced to a scientific abst…
Timber Colony. A Historical Geography of Early Nineteenth Century New Brunswick
Remapping Tutira
West Ham and the River Lea
During the nineteenth century, London’s population grew by more than five million as people flocked from the countryside to the city to take up jobs in shops and factories. In West Ham and the River Lea, Jim Clifford explores the growth of London’s most populous independent suburb and the degradation of its second largest river, bringing to light the consequences of these developments on social democracy and urban politics in Greater London. Draw…
What Is Water?
We all know what water is, and we often take it for granted. Because it seems so natural, we seldom question how we see water. But the spectre of a worldwide water crisis suggests that there might be something fundamentally wrong with the way we think about water. Jamie Linton dives into the history of the modern concept of water, that water can be stripped of its wider environmental, social, and cultural contexts and reduced to a scientific abst…
D. W. Meinig and The Shaping of America
A Scholar's Guide to Geographical Writing on the American and Canadian past
Discovering the antipodes
Framing an Ecology of Hope
Responding to the social, political, economic, and ecological challenges that confront contemporary society, this article—the 2019 Presidential Address to the American Society for Environmental History—argues that critique and resistance, married with a quest for alternative possibilities, will serve us better than a doleful narrative of decline. It seeks hope by reengaging with the ideas of scholars who earlier lamented despoliation and envisage…
Pioneers, politicians and the conservation of forests in early New Zealand
Hunters at the Margin
Hunters at the Margin examines the conflict in the Northwest Territories between Native hunters and conservationists over three big game species: the wood bison, the muskox, and the caribou. John Sandlos argues that the introduction of game regulations, national parks, and game sanctuaries was central to the assertion of state authority over the traditional hunting cultures of the Dene and Inuit. His archival research undermines the assumption th…
Fixing Niagara Falls
Since the late nineteenth century, Niagara Falls has been heavily engineered to generate energy behind a flowing façade designed to appeal to tourists. Fixing Niagara Falls reveals the technological feats and cross-border politics that facilitated the transformation of one of the most important natural sites in North America. Daniel Macfarlane details how engineers, bureaucrats, and politicians conspired to manipulate the world’s most famous wate…
Reflections on the American environment
A Region of Scattered Settlements and Bounded Possibilities
The human geography of the Canadian Maritime provinces was transformed in the late eighteenth century; before 1775, the transformation proceeded largely under the sway of New England; after 1783 it was overwhelmingly the product of Loyalist settlement; by 1800 the region had 8 or 9 times its population of 1756, four colonial jurisdictions had been carved from the original Nova Scotia, and its landscape, economy, and society revealed patterns that…
Forests, Frontiers, and Extractivism
Special Forum
The Journal of Historical Geography, Reed Elsevier and the arms trade
On the plains and the margins of the good earth
New Views of the Great Forest
A Province Too Much Dependent on New England
The human geography of the Canadian Maritime provinces was transformed in the late eighteenth century; before 1775, the transformation proceeded largely under the sway of New England; after 1783 it was overwhelmingly the product of Loyalist settlement; by 1800 the region had 8 or 9 times the population of 1756, four colonial jurisdictions had been carved from the original Nova Scotia, and'its landscape, economy, and society revealed patterns that…
Notes on Society and Environment in Old Ontario
Journal Article Notes on Society and Environment in Old Ontario Get access Graeme Wynn Graeme Wynn University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 13, Issue 1, Fall 1979, Pages 49–65, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/13.1.49 Published: 01 October 1979
Discovering the antipodes
Pioneers, politicians and the conservation of forests in early New Zealand
Notes on Society and Environment in Old Ontario
Journal Article Notes on Society and Environment in Old Ontario Get access Graeme Wynn Graeme Wynn University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 13, Issue 1, Fall 1979, Pages 49–65, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/13.1.49 Published: 01 October 1979
Maritime rights. The maritime rights movement, 1919–1927. A study in Canadian regionalism
Timber Colony. A Historical Geography of Early Nineteenth Century New Brunswick
Insular New Zealand
A Region of Scattered Settlements and Bounded Possibilities
The human geography of the Canadian Maritime provinces was transformed in the late eighteenth century; before 1775, the transformation proceeded largely under the sway of New England; after 1783 it was overwhelmingly the product of Loyalist settlement; by 1800 the region had 8 or 9 times its population of 1756, four colonial jurisdictions had been carved from the original Nova Scotia, and its landscape, economy, and society revealed patterns that…
A Province Too Much Dependent on New England
The human geography of the Canadian Maritime provinces was transformed in the late eighteenth century; before 1775, the transformation proceeded largely under the sway of New England; after 1783 it was overwhelmingly the product of Loyalist settlement; by 1800 the region had 8 or 9 times the population of 1756, four colonial jurisdictions had been carved from the original Nova Scotia, and'its landscape, economy, and society revealed patterns that…
Atlantic Perspectives A Review Essay
The Forested Land
Journal Article The Forested Land: A History of Lumbering in Western Washington. By Robert E. Ficken. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1987. xviii + 324 pp. $25.00.) Get access Graeme Wynn Graeme Wynn University of British Columbia, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 946, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901621 Published: 01 December…
The New Brunswick Worker in the 20th Century/Les travailleurs an Nouveau-Brunswick au 20ieme siecle
The Developer's Frontier
Journal Article The Developer's Frontier: The Making of the Western New York Landscape. By William WyckofF. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. xiv + 239 pp. $27.50.) Get access Graeme Wynn Graeme Wynn University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Pages 587–588, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908017 Published: 01 September 198…
New Views of the Great Forest
Of Inequality and Interdependence in the Nova Scotian Countryside, 1850–70
John N. Vogel — Great Lakes Lumber on the Great Plains
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
A Scholar's Guide to Geographical Writing on the American and Canadian past
Maps and Dreams of Nationhood
Faced with the task of reviewing the final volume of the Historical Atlas of Canada, historian Roger Hall found it 'very difficult' to fault a 'gigantic xS-year, $8. 5 million interdisciplinary enterprise' published in three volumes that was 'almost by definition admirable and worthy. '• Earlier volumes of the atlas, he noted, had been acclaimed for their 'undeniable beauty as ... specimen[s] ofboth the science of cartography and the art of bookm…
Remapping Tutira
A Fine Balance? Geography at the Millennium
Recognizing that post‐modernism (broadly defined) has had a significant impact upon contemporary geographical practice, this essay considers the claims of its proponents and seeks to weigh the implications of the postmodernist impulse for the subject as a whole. On balance, recent engagements with the ideas of a broad spectrum of important philosophers and critical theorists are seen to have broadened, enlivened, and in some respects enhanced hum…
The Eucalyptus
Calling the Station Home
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic' in Environmental History
George Perkins Marsh is both the hero and the foil of this paper. His well-known book, Man and Nature , and his reputation as the fountainhead of the conservation movement lie at the very centre of the story offered here. But this account also casts some doubt upon the precedence generally attributed to some of Marsh's ecological claims, and questions the wisdom of placing Marsh and other historical figures on pedestals that elevate them too read…
D. W. Meinig and The Shaping of America
The Nature of Gold
Book Review| April 01 2005 The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush. Kathryn Morse. Graeme Wynn Graeme Wynn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2005) 79 (2): 243–246. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-79.2.243 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Graeme Wynn; The Natur…
Canada and Arctic North America
This comprehensive treatment of the environmental history of northern North America offers a compelling account of the complex encounters of people, technology, culture, and ecology that shaped modern-day Canada and Alaska. From the arrival of the earliest humans to the very latest scientific controversies, the environmental history of Canada and Arctic North America is dramatic, diverse, and crucial for the very survival of the human race. Packe…
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