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The European Antarctic Science and strategy in Scandinavia and the British Empire /

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...

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Main Authors: Roberts, Peder
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history
Subjects:
Scientific expeditions > History > 20th century > Antarctica.
European history > 20th century > British Empire. > British Empire. > British Empire.
History of science > 20th century > British Empire. > British Empire. > British Empire.
History.
Antarctica > Discovery and exploration > British.
Antarctica > Discovery and exploration > Norwegian.
Antarctica > Discovery and exploration > Swedish.
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230337909
Summary: 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.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230115910, 2011.
Carrier Form: 284 p.
ISBN: 9780230115910
9780230337909 :
0230337902 :
CLC: N816.61
Contents: 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.

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