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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roberts, Peder
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan US 2011, 2011
Series:Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Description
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
Physical Description:284 p online resource
ISBN:9780230337909