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The European Antarctic : science and strategy in Scandinavia and the British Empire
- Title
- The European Antarctic : science and strategy in Scandinavia and the British Empire / Peder Roberts.
- Author
- Roberts, Peder.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 266 p. : maps; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "This is the first transnational study of British, Norwegian, and Swedish engagement with the Antarctic, from the years before the Great War to the early years of the Cold War. Rather than charting how Europeans unveiled the Antarctic, it uses the history of Antarctic activity as a window into the political and cultural worlds of twentieth-century Britain and Scandinavia. Science was a resource for states attempting to reveal - and control - the Antarctic and its resources. But it was also a source of personal and institutional capital, a means of earning civic status and professional advancement. The book ranges from the politics of whaling management to the changing value of geographical exploration in the academy and the rise of specialized, state-sponsored research, presenting an episodic rather than a linear narrative focused on historically specific networks and strategies. Drawing upon scholarship in critical geopolitics, imperial environmental history, and the cultural history of science, author Peder Roberts argues that despite its splendid geographical isolation, the Antarctic was a field for distinctly local European dreams"--
- Series Statement
- Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history
- Uniform Title
- Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history.
- Subjects
- Antarctica > Discovery and exploration > Norwegian
- HISTORY / Europe / Scandinavia
- HISTORY / Social History
- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
- Antarctica > Discovery and exploration > British
- Scientific expeditions > Antarctica > History > 20th century
- HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
- Antarctica > Discovery and exploration > Swedish
- SCIENCE / History
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 235-254 and index.
- Call Number
- JFD 12-1810
- ISBN
- 9780230115910 (hardback)
- 0230115918 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2011023660
- OCLC
- YBP 2011023660
- Author
- Roberts, Peder.
- Title
- The European Antarctic : science and strategy in Scandinavia and the British Empire / Peder Roberts.
- Imprint
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Series
- Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual historyPalgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history.
- Bibliography
- Bibliography: p. 235-254 and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 12-1810