Class and Colonialism in Antarctic Exploration, 1750–1920

Class and Colonialism in Antarctic Exploration, 1750–1920
Author: Ben Maddison
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317319427

Between 1750 and 1920 over 15,000 people visited Antarctica. Despite such a large number the historiography has ignored all but a few celebrated explorers. Maddison presents a study of Antarctic exploration, telling the story of these forgotten facilitators, he argues that Antarctic exploration can be seen as an offshoot of European colonialism.

Colonialism and Antarctica

Colonialism and Antarctica
Author: Peder Roberts
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2024-07-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1526170620

This book explores how the concept of colonialism can help to understand the past and present of Antarctica, and how Antarctica may illuminate the limits of colonialism as an analytic concept. Despite lacking an indigenous population, the continent has been shaped by many of the same political and economic forces that have defined the rest of the world – notwithstanding its unique governance arrangement, the Antarctic Treaty System. The book provides a fresh and timely set of contributions that critically explore different practices, attitudes and logics that suggest that colonialism may have been and may still be present in Antarctica, ranging from religion to material culture to the treatment of animals. The chapters also explore the connection between colonialism and cognate terms like capitalism, socialism, nationalism, and environmentalism.

Medicine and Colonialism

Medicine and Colonialism
Author: Poonam Bala
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317318226

Focusing on India and South Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the essays in this collection address power and enforced modernity as applied to medicine. Clashes between traditional methods of healing and the practices brought in by colonizers are explored across both territories.

Handbook on the Politics of Antarctica

Handbook on the Politics of Antarctica
Author: Klaus Dodds
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 631
Release: 2017-01-27
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1784717681

The Antarctic and Southern Ocean are hotspots for contemporary endeavours to oversee 'the last frontier' of the Earth. The Handbook on the Politics of Antarctica offers a wide-ranging and comprehensive overview of the governance, geopolitics, international law, cultural studies and history of the region. Four thematic sections take readers from the earliest human encounters to contemporary resource exploitation and climate change. Written by leading experts, the Handbook brings together the very best interdisciplinary social science and humanities scholarship on the Antarctic and Southern Ocean.

Arctic Exploration in the Nineteenth Century

Arctic Exploration in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Frédéric Regard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317321529

Focusing on nineteenth-century attempts to locate the northwest passage, the essays in this volume present this quest as a central element of British culture.

Anthropocene Antarctica

Anthropocene Antarctica
Author: Elizabeth Leane
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2019-09-12
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0429770758

Anthropocene Antarctica offers new ways of thinking about the ‘Continent for Science and Peace’ in a time of planetary environmental change. In the Anthropocene, Antarctica has become central to the Earth’s future. Ice cores taken from its interior reveal the deep environmental history of the planet and warming ocean currents are ominously destabilising the glaciers around its edges, presaging sea-level rise in decades and centuries to come. At the same time, proliferating research stations and tourist numbers challenge stereotypes of the continent as the ‘last wilderness.’ The Anthropocene brings Antarctica nearer in thought, entangled with our everyday actions. If the Anthropocene signals the end of the idea of Nature as separate from humans, then the Antarctic, long considered the material embodiment of this idea, faces a radical reframing. Understanding the southern polar region in the twenty-first century requires contributions across the disciplinary spectrum. This collection paves the way for researchers in the Environmental Humanities, Law and Social Sciences to engage critically with the Antarctic, fostering a community of scholars who can act with natural scientists to address the globally significant environmental issues that face this vitally important part of the planet.

Antarctica and the Humanities

Antarctica and the Humanities
Author: Roberts Peder
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2016-08-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137545755

The continent for science is also a continent for the humanities. Despite having no indigenous human population, Antarctica has been imagined in powerful, innovative, and sometimes disturbing ways that reflect politics and culture much further north. Antarctica has become an important source of data for natural scientists working to understand global climate change. As this book shows, the tools of literary studies, history, archaeology, and more, can likewise produce important insights into the nature of the modern world and humanity more broadly.

Baudin, Napoleon and the Exploration of Australia

Baudin, Napoleon and the Exploration of Australia
Author: Nicole Starbuck
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317322126

This is the first in-depth study of the sojourn in Sydney made by Nicolas Baudin’s scientific expedition to Australia in 1802. Starbuck focuses on the reconstruction of the voyage during the expedition’s stay in colonial Sydney and how this sheds new light on our understanding of French society, politics and science in the era of Bonaparte.

Brand Antarctica

Brand Antarctica
Author: Hanne Elliot Fonss Nielsen
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 204
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 1496238249

Historians on Leadership and Strategy

Historians on Leadership and Strategy
Author: Martin Gutmann
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 3030260909

This book examines the well-covered subject of leadership from a unique perspective: history's vast catalogue of leadership successes and failures. Through a collection of highly compelling case studies spanning two millennia, it looks beyond the classic leadership parable of men in military or political crises and shows that successful leadership cannot be reduced to simplistic formulae. Written by experts in the field and based on rigorous research, each case provides a rich and compelling account that is accessible to a wide audience, from students to managers. Rather than serving as a vehicle for advancing a particular theory of leadership, each case invites readers to reflect, debate and extract their own insights.