Episode 134: History of the Arctic w/Dr Bathsheba Demuth

Published: Jan. 9, 2020, 5:46 a.m.

b"Bathsheba Demuth is an Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at\\xa0Brown\\xa0University, where she specializes in the US and Russian Arctic. Her first book,\\xa0Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait \\xa0(Norton, 2019) examines capitalist and socialist attempts to transform northern lands, seas, and Indigenous peoples, and was named one of the best books of 2019 by\\xa0NPR\\xa0and\\xa0Nature.\\xa0 Demuth's writing on energy, animals, and past environmental change has appeared in publications from\\xa0The American Historical Review\\xa0to\\xa0The New Yorker.\\n\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"