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.
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 ScienceÜber den Autor
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.
Sprache Englisch ● Format PDF ● Seiten 266 ● ISBN 9780230337909 ● Dateigröße 3.4 MB ● Verlag Palgrave Macmillan US ● Ort New York ● Land US ● Erscheinungsjahr 2011 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 4883568 ● Kopierschutz Soziales DRM