Tina Adcock

A Cold Colonialism

Modern Exploration and the Canadian North

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A Cold Colonialism reframes exploration as a modern enterprise - one through which southern Canadians and Americans sought to exert control over northern peoples and their lands.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 159mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 684g
• ISBN-13: 9780774870122
• ISBN-10: 0774870125
• Artikelnr.: 73330010

Autorenporträt

Tina Adcock

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Why Look at Explorers? Making Modern Exploration Visible
1 A Community of Interest: How Explorers Became North-Minded and
North-Hearted
2 Antimodern Explorers: Industrial Colonization and Change Between the Wars
3 Debunking the Arctic: Exploration and Popular Geographical Education
4 Explorers at War: Navigating Disciplinary and National Borders
5 Canol: A Wartime Project of Exploration
6 The Encyclopedia Arctica: A Cold War Project of Exploration
7 Making Exploration History: Pioneer Pasts and Settler Colonial Futures
Conclusion Hornby, Me, You? How Modern Exploration Endures
Notes; Bibliography; Index