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Against the Tides

Ronald Rudin
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      For four centuries, dykes turned salt marsh into arable land in the Bay of Fundy region of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. But by the 1940s, the aging dykes were in poor repair. Against the Tides is the never-before-told story of the Maritime Marshland Rehabilitation Administration, a federal agency created in 1948 to reshape the landscape. Agency engineers sometimes borrowed from long-standing dykeland practices, but they also disregarded local conditions in building tidal dams that compromised some of the region’s rivers. This vivid account of a distinctive landscape and its occupants reveals the push–pull of local and expert knowledge and the role of the postwar state.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Ronald Rudin EAN: 9780774866767 COUNTRY: Canada PAGES: WEIGHT: 480 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of British Columbia Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-08-15 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Canada / General, HISTORY / Canada / Provincial, Territorial & Local / Atlantic Provinces (NB, NL, NS, PE), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Canada, History of the Americas, Environmental policy and protocols, Agriculture and farming

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      Ronald Rudin is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Concordia University. He is the author of numerous books, among them Remembering and Forgetting in Acadie: A Historian’s Journey through Public Memory and Kouchibouguac: Removal, Resistance, and Remembrance at a Canadian National Park. The latter received the Canadian Historical Association Clio Prize for best book on Atlantic Canada, the Canadian Oral History Association Prize, and the Prix de l’Assemblée nationale from the Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française. Rudin has produced eight documentary films, most recently Unnatural Landscapes, which accompanies this book.
      For four centuries, dykes turned salt marsh into arable land in the Bay of Fundy region of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. But by the 1940s, the aging dykes were in poor repair. Against the Tides is the never-before-told story of the Maritime Marshland Rehabilitation Administration, a federal agency created in 1948 to reshape the landscape. Agency engineers sometimes borrowed from long-standing dykeland practices, but they also disregarded local conditions in building tidal dams that compromised some of the region’s rivers. This vivid account of a distinctive landscape and its occupants reveals the push–pull of local and expert knowledge and the role of the postwar state.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Ronald Rudin EAN: 9780774866767 COUNTRY: Canada PAGES: WEIGHT: 480 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of British Columbia Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-08-15 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Canada / General, HISTORY / Canada / Provincial, Territorial & Local / Atlantic Provinces (NB, NL, NS, PE), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Canada, History of the Americas, Environmental policy and protocols, Agriculture and farming

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      Ronald Rudin is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Concordia University. He is the author of numerous books, among them Remembering and Forgetting in Acadie: A Historian’s Journey through Public Memory and Kouchibouguac: Removal, Resistance, and Remembrance at a Canadian National Park. The latter received the Canadian Historical Association Clio Prize for best book on Atlantic Canada, the Canadian Oral History Association Prize, and the Prix de l’Assemblée nationale from the Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française. Rudin has produced eight documentary films, most recently Unnatural Landscapes, which accompanies this book.

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