Book ID: CBB000201310

Narrating the Arctic: A Cultural History of Nordic Scientific Practices (2002)

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Bravo, Michael T. (Editor)
Sörlin, Sverker (Editor)


Science History Publications
Publication date: 2002
Language: English


Publication Date: 2002
Physical Details: x + 373 pp., illus., bibl., index

Description Contents: Michael *Bravo, Sverker *Sörlin, Narrative and Practice---an Introduction; Michael *Harbsmeier, Bodies and Voices from Ultima Thule: Inuit Explorations of the Kablunat from Christian IV to Knud Rasmussen; Sverker *Sörlin, Rituals and Resources of Natural History: The North and the Arctic in Swedish Scientific Nationalism; Urban *Wråkberg, The Politics of Naming: Contested Observations and the Shaping of Geographical Knowledge; Christopher *Ries, Lauge Koch and the Mapping of North East Greenland: Tradition and Modernity in Danish Arctic Research, 1920-1940; Michael *Bravo, Measuring Danes and Eskimos; Gisli *Palsson, Arcticality: Gender, Race, and Geography in the Writings of Vilhjalmur Stefansson; Kirsten *Thisted, The Power to Represent: Intertextuality and Discourse in Smilla's Sense of Snow.


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Review Lüdecke, C. (2004) Review of "Narrating the Arctic: A Cultural History of Nordic Scientific Practices". Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (p. 266). unapi

Review Anker, Peder (2003) Review of "Narrating the Arctic: A Cultural History of Nordic Scientific Practices". Environmental History (p. 487). unapi

Review Avango, Dag (2003) Review of "Narrating the Arctic: A Cultural History of Nordic Scientific Practices". Lychnos (pp. 360-361). unapi

Review Hafsteinsson, Sigurjon Baldur (2004) Review of "Narrating the Arctic: A Cultural History of Nordic Scientific Practices". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 364). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Sörlin, Sverker
Stone, Philip
Bohn, Maria
Colia, Elliot
Cosgrove, Denis E.
Delft, Dirk van
Journals
Archives of Natural History
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Cartographica Helvetica
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Journal of Historical Geography
Postcolonial Studies
Publishers
Princeton University
I. B. Tauris
Melbourne University Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Scarecrow Press
Sharpe Reference
Concepts
Scientific expeditions
Geography
Cartography
Travel; exploration
Science and politics
Climate and climatology
People
McCormick, Robert M.
Ross, James Clark
Ahlmann, Hans Wilhelmsson
Buch, Kurt
Callendar, Guy Stewart
Flynn, John
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
21st century
Places
Polar regions
Scandinavia; Nordic countries
Antarctica
Great Britain
Russia
United States
Institutions
Natural History Museum (London, England)
International Geophysical Year (IGY)
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