Historical Geography
The Ideology of Extraction
Four episodes across four centuries — nutmeg, tea, opium, oil — tracing a single pattern: a commodity becomes worth fighting over, force is deployed to...
Four episodes across four centuries — nutmeg, tea, opium, oil — tracing a single pattern: a commodity becomes worth fighting over, force is deployed to...
Alberta has no coastline, no navigable rivers to tidewater, and sits 1,200 kilometres from the nearest port. Every tonne of export and every passenger trip...