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Polar imperative a history of Arctic sovereignty in North America
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- ISBN: 9781553656180 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1553656180 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource (xiv, 540 pages) : illustrations, maps - Publisher: Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, ©2010.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-518) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Defining the parameters -- First inhabitants, 3000 BC-1500 AD -- Merchants and monarchs, 1500-1814 -- The British admiralty and the Arctic, 1818-53 -- Purchase of Alaska, 1818-67 -- Sale of Rupert's Land, 1870 -- British transfer of the Arctic Islands, 1870-1900 -- Perfecting sovereign titles, 1900-38 -- World War II, 1939-45 -- Postwar and Cold War, 1946-91 -- Arctic oil and Aboriginal rights, 1960-2004 -- Beginning of a new era -- Conflicts and challenges. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Electronic resources
- Choice Reviews : Choice Reviews 2010 December
The recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the search for the wreck of the Franklin search-vessel HMS Investigator connect global warming with the ecology and economics of resource extraction as well as the geopolitics of historically justified sovereignty claims. Grant (Trent Univ., Canada) situates her rich study of North American Arctic sovereignty in a long-ranging analysis of the region's history. Part 1 establishes the study's parameters, links Arctic climatic changes and successive human occupations, and explains the motives of the British, Russian, and Danish. Part 2 addresses 19th-century British and US expansionism through the lens of nationalist imperatives, while part 3 explores the 20th century's scientific research, new resources, technological advances, military presences, and emerging recognition of inherent aboriginal rights. Part 4 assesses new priorities and their associated conflicts and challenges against the preceding historical analysis. Grant stresses certain conclusions: a view of sovereignty that transcends ownership and requires responsibility and the need for a common international vision to ensure the "future stability of the North American Arctic" and protection against threats from "competitive corporatism or nationalism." Despite seeking to inform a public audience, Grant's scholarship provides a richly footnoted argument accompanied by a comprehensive bibliography. Copiously and imaginatively illustrated. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. Copyright 2010 American Library Association.
