This is the first transnational study of British, Norwegian, and
Swedish engagement with the Antarctic, from the years before the
Great War to the early years of the Cold War. Rather than charting
how Europeans unveiled the Antarctic, it uses the history of
Antarctic activity as a window into the political and cultural
worlds of twentieth-century Britain and Scandinavia. Science was a
resource for states attempting to reveal - and control - the
Antarctic and its resources. But it was also a source of personal
and institutional capital, a means of earning civic status and
professional advancement. The book ranges from the politics of
whaling management to the changing value of geographical
exploration in the academy and the rise of specialized,
state-sponsored research, presenting an episodic rather than a
linear narrative focused on historically specific networks and
strategies. Drawing upon scholarship in critical geopolitics,
imperial environmental history, and the cultural history of
science, author Peder Roberts argues that despite its splendid
geographical isolation, the Antarctic was a field for distinctly
local European dreams.
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