Katherine Crooks

At Home in the Cold

Domestic Culture in Arctic Exploration, 1890-1940

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

At Home in the Cold brings to light the stories of five white and northern Indigenous women who travelled between the eastern Arctic and America between 1890 and 1940 in connection with exploratory expeditions. Their journeys and recollections challenged prevailing ideas about home, the North, and the rightful place of women.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9780228025610
• ISBN-10: 0228025613
• Artikelnr.: 73803075

Autorenporträt

Katherine Crooks is a postdoctoral research fellow in northern history at Mount Saint Vincent University.

Inhaltsangabe

Figures vii
Acknowledgments xiii
1 Introduction At Home with the Arctic, 1890–1940 3
2 “Never Far From Home” Mina Hubbard’s Labrador Journey and Domestic
Geographies of Exploration 29
3 “The Only Eskimo on the American Platform” Elizabeth Ford’s American
Homemaking through Arctic Performance 66
4 Greenland’s White Mother Josephine Diebitsch Peary and American
Domesticity’s Racial Order 115
5 Home at the “Outermost Limit of the World” The Arctic Girlhoods of
Eqariusaq and Marie Peary 172
Conclusion 228
Notes 235
Bibliography 281
Index 311