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The European Antarctic = science and strategy in Scandinavia and the British Empire /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The European Antarctic/ Peder Roberts.
Reminder of title:	science and strategy in Scandinavia and the British Empire /
Author:	Roberts, Peder.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2011.,
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 266 p.) :maps. :
Subject:	Scientific expeditions - History - 20th century. - Antarctica -
Subject:	Antarctica - Juvenile fiction. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230337909
ISBN:	9780230337909 (electronic bk.)

The European Antarctic = science and strategy in Scandinavia and the British Empire /
Roberts, Peder.

The European Antarcticscience and strategy in Scandinavia and the British Empire /[electronic resource]:Peder Roberts. - 1st ed. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2011. - 1 online resource (xvii, 266 p.) :maps. - Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history. - Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history..

Bibliography: p. 235-254 and index.

Science, Commerce, and the State -- Imperial Science in the Antarctic -- The Union of Hunting and Research -- Ivory Towers and Icy Frontiers -- The (Re)Invention of a Swedish Tradition -- A Successful Failure -- The Cold War Comes to the Coldest Continent -- Epilogue: A Continent for Performing Science.

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.

ISBN: 9780230337909 (electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 9786613439871

Source: 534347Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

834943
Scientific expeditions
--History--Antarctica--20th century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

804184
Antarctica
--Juvenile fiction.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: G870 / .R594 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 919.8/9

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