Explorations in the Icy North

Name: Explorations in the Icy North
Brand: University of Pittsburgh Press
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How Travel Narratives Shaped Arctic Science in the Nineteenth Century

Szerző: Nanna Katrine Luders Kaalund

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Kiadó: University of Pittsburgh Press

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Science in the Arctic changed dramatically over the course of the nineteenth century, when early, sc...

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Szerző

Nanna Katrine Luders Kaalund

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2021

oldal

240

EAN

9780822946595

ISBN

0822946599

Enbook ID

33583474

Kiadó

University of Pittsburgh Press

Súly

460

Méretek

238 x 161 x 28

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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.

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