Roberts The European Antarctic

Science and Strategy in Scandinavia and the British Empire
2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-33790-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 266 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History

This is the first transnational study of British, Norwegian, and Swedish engagement with the Antarctic. 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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roberts, P.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

PEDER ROBERTS Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Institut de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur les Sciences et les Technologies, (Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Science and Technology), University of Strasbourg, France.