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. PEDER ROBERTS Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Institut de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur les Sciences et les Technologies, University of Strasbourg,France. INDICE: 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

• ISBN: 978-0-230-11591-0
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 284
• Fecha Publicación: 23/12/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés