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1 online resource (pages cm.) |
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text file |
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Science and culture in the nineteenth century
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- New beginnings in the Arctic -- Financial opportunities in the Arctic -- The lost Franklin expedition and new opportunities for Arctic -- From science in the Arctic to Arctic science. |
| Summary |
"Science in the Arctic changed dramatically over the course of the nineteenth century, when early, scattered attempts in the region to gather knowledge about all aspects of the natural world transitioned to a more unified Arctic science under the First International Polar Year in 1882. The IPY brought together researchers from multiple countries with the aim of undertaking systematic and coordinated experiments and observations in the Arctic and Antarctic. Harsh conditions, intense isolation, and acute danger inevitably impacted the making and communicating of scientific knowledge. At the same time, changes in ideas about what it meant to be an authoritative observer of natural phenomena were linked to tensions in imperial ambitions, national identities, and international collaborations of the IPY. Through a focused study of travel narratives in the British, Danish, Canadian, and American contexts, Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund uncovers not only the transnational nature of Arctic exploration, but also how the publication and reception of literature about it shaped an extreme environment, its explorers, and their scientific practices. She reveals how, far beyond the metropole-in the vast area we understand today as the North American and Greenlandic Arctic-explorations and the narratives that followed ultimately influenced the production of field science in the nineteenth century"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Arctic regions -- Description and travel.
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Arctic Regions. |
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Arctic regions -- Environmental conditions.
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Environmental conditions. |
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Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration.
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Discoveries in geography. |
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SCIENCE / General. |
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Travel. |
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Ecology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Project Muse, distributor.
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| ISBN |
0822988054 |
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9780822988052 (electronic book) |
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9780822946595 |
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0822946599 |
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