Trevor H. Levere

Science and the Canadian Arctic

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book will appeal to historians, environmental scientists, and anyone interested in the Arctic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 888g
• ISBN-13: 9780521419338
• ISBN-10: 0521419336
• Artikelnr.: 26704939

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
1. Science and the Navy
2. The Navy and the Northwest Passage after the Napoleonic Wars: 1817-34
3. Overland to the Arctic, surveyors and naturalists: the Royal Navy and the Hudson's Bay Company
4. Mid-century: the Admiralty manual and the state of Arctic science
5. Constructive rivalry: the Navy and the Hudson's Bay Company: John Franklin and the search expeditions
6. The Arctic crusade: national pride, international affairs, and science
7. Science north: the British Arctic Expedition 1875-6
8. From nationalism to internationalism in science: the International Polar Year 1882-3
9. Science without borders, or scientific territory: imperialism and emergent nationalism before 1918
10. New lands and seas: Vilhjalmur Stefansson: science, territory and government
Afterword
Bibliography
Index.