Arctic Mirrors
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Arctic Mirrors
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Author : Yuri Slezkine
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1994
Arctic Mirrors written by Yuri Slezkine and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
Arctic Mirrors is a vividly rendered history of circumpolar peoples in the Russian empire and the Russian mind.
Arctic Mirrors
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Author : Yuri Slezkine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Arctic Mirrors written by Yuri Slezkine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Arctic peoples categories.
Arctic Smoke Mirrors
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Author : Gerard I. Kenney
language : en
Publisher: Prescott, Ont. : Voyageur Publishing
Release Date : 1994
Arctic Smoke Mirrors written by Gerard I. Kenney and has been published by Prescott, Ont. : Voyageur Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Social Science categories.
Living conditions on the east coast of Hudson Bay forty years ago were desperate. In 1953, a number of Inuit families were moved by the Canadian government for that coast in Northern Quebec and Baffin Island to the high Arctic Islands of Ellesmere and Cornwallis. The reason for the moves as stated by the government at the time was to take the Inuit away from destitution in Northern Quebec and to relocate them in an area of better game and fur trapping potential. In the 1970's, Inuit spokepersons began to make representations to the effect that the people had been moved against their will from a place of abundance to a place of harshness and suffering in order to protect Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic. Today, in the 1990's, they are claiming a $10,000,000 settlement to compensate for wrongdoing and suffering -- from Preface.
Red Arctic
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Author : John McCannon
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1998-04-09
Red Arctic written by John McCannon and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-04-09 with History categories.
A work of refreshing originality and vivid appeal, Red Arctic tells the story of Stalinist Russia's massive campaign to explore and develop its Northern territories during the 1930s. Author John McCannon recounts the dramatic stories of the polar expeditions--conducted by foot, ship, and plane--that were the pride of Stalinist Russia, in order to expose the reality behind them: chaotic blunders, bureaucratic competition, and the eventual rise of the Gulag as the dominant force in the North. Red Arctic also traces the development of the polar-based popular culture of the decade, making use of memoirs, films, radio broadcasts, children's books, and cultural ephemera ranging from placards to postage stamps to show how Russia's "Arctic Myth" became an integral part of the overall socialist-realist aesthetic that animated Stalinist culture throughout the 1930s.
A History Of Russia Central Asia And Mongolia Volume Ii
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Author : David Christian
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2018-03-12
A History Of Russia Central Asia And Mongolia Volume Ii written by David Christian and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-12 with History categories.
Provides an all-encompassing look at the history of Russia, Central Asia, and Mongolia Beginning with the breakup of the Mongol Empire in the mid-thirteenth century, Volume II of this comprehensive work covers the remarkable history of “Inner Eurasia,” from 1260 up to modern times, completing the story begun in Volume I. Volume II describes how agriculture spread through Inner Eurasia, providing the foundations for new agricultural states, including the Russian Empire. It focuses on the idea of “mobilization”—the distinctive ways in which elite groups mobilized resources from their populations, and how those methods were shaped by the region’s distinctive ecology, which differed greatly from that of “Outer Eurasia,” the southern half of Eurasia and the part of Eurasia most studied by historians. This work also examines how fossil fuels created a bonanza of energy that helped shape the history of the Communist world during much of the twentieth century. Filled with figures, maps, and tables to help give readers a fuller understanding of what has transpired over 750 years in this distinctive world region, A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia: Volume II: Inner Eurasia from the Mongol Empire to Today, 1260-2000 is a magisterial but accessible account of this area’s past, that will offer readers new insights into the history of an often misunderstood part of the world. Situates the histories of Russia, Central Asia, and Mongolia within the larger narrative of world history Concentrates on the idea of Inner Eurasia as a coherent ecological and geographical zone Focuses on the powerful ways in which the region’s geography shaped its history Places great emphasis on how “mobilization” played a major part in the development of the regions Offers a distinctive interpretation of modernity that highlights the importance of fossil fuels Offers new ways of understanding the Soviet era A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia: Volume II is an ideal book for general audiences and for use in undergraduate and graduate courses in world history. The Blackwell History of the World Series The goal of this ambitious series is to provide an accessible source of knowledge about the entire human past, for every curious person in every part of the world. It will comprise some two dozen volumes, of which some provide synoptic views of the history of particular regions while others consider the world as a whole during a particular period of time. The volumes are narrative in form, giving balanced attention to social and cultural history (in the broadest sense) as well as to institutional development and political change. Each provides a systematic account of a very large subject, but they are also both imaginative and interpretative. The Series is intended to be accessible to the widest possible readership, and the accessibility of its volumes is matched by the style of presentation and production.
Kodiak Kreol
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Author : Gwenn A. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2015-11-25
Kodiak Kreol written by Gwenn A. Miller and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-25 with History categories.
From the 1780s to the 1820s, Kodiak Island, the first capital of Imperial Russia's only overseas colony, was inhabited by indigenous Alutiiq people and colonized by Russians. Together, they established an ethnically mixed "kreol" community. Against the backdrop of the fur trade, the missionary work of the Russian Orthodox Church, and competition among Pacific colonial powers, Gwenn A. Miller brings to light the social, political, and economic patterns of life in the settlement, making clear that Russia's modest colonial effort off the Alaskan coast fully depended on the assistance of Alutiiq people. In this context, Miller argues, the relationships that developed between Alutiiq women and Russian men were critical keys to the initial success of Russia's North Pacific venture. Although Russia's Alaskan enterprise began some two centuries after other European powers—Spain, England, Holland, and France—started to colonize North America, many aspects of the contacts between Russians and Alutiiq people mirror earlier colonial episodes: adaptation to alien environments, the "discovery" and exploitation of natural resources, complicated relations between indigenous peoples and colonizing Europeans, attempts by an imperial state to moderate those relations, and a web of Christianizing practices. Russia's Pacific colony, however, was founded on the cusp of modernity at the intersection of earlier New World forms of colonization and the bureaucratic age of high empire. Miller's attention to the coexisting intimacy and violence of human connections on Kodiak offers new insights into the nature of colonialism in a little-known American outpost of European imperial power.
Library And Information Studies For Arctic Social Sciences And Humanities
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Author : Spencer Acadia
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-11-26
Library And Information Studies For Arctic Social Sciences And Humanities written by Spencer Acadia and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-26 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities serves as a key interdisciplinary title that links the social sciences and humanities with current issues, trends, and projects in library, archival, and information sciences within shared Arctic frameworks and geographies. Including contributions from professionals and academics working across and on the Arctic, the book presents recent research, theoretical inquiry, and applied professional endeavours at academic and public libraries, as well as archives, museums, government institutions, and other organisations. Focusing on efforts that further Arctic knowledge and research, papers present local, regional, and institutional case studies to conceptually and empirically describe real-life research in which the authors are engaged. Topics covered include the complexities of developing and managing multilingual resources; working in geographically isolated areas; curating combinations of local, regional, national, and international content collections; and understanding historical and contemporary colonial-industrial influences in indigenous knowledge. Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities will be essential reading for academics, researchers, and students working the fields of library, archival, and information or data science, as well as those working in the humanities and social sciences more generally. It should also be of great interest to librarians, archivists, curators, and information or data professionals around the globe.
Arctic Environmental Modernities
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Author : Lill-Ann Körber
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-02-12
Arctic Environmental Modernities written by Lill-Ann Körber and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-12 with Science categories.
This book offers a diverse and groundbreaking account of the intersections between modernities and environments in the circumpolar global North, foregrounding the Arctic as a critical space of modernity, where the past, present, and future of the planet’s environmental and political systems are projected and imagined. Investigating the Arctic region as a privileged site of modernity, this book articulates the globally significant, but often overlooked, junctures between environmentalism and sustainability, indigenous epistemologies and scientific rhetoric, and decolonization strategies and governmentality. With international expertise made easily accessible, readers can observe and understand the rise and conflicted status of Arctic modernities, from the nineteenth century polar explorer era to the present day of anthropogenic climate change.
Protecting The Arctic
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Author : Mark Nuttall
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-10-05
Protecting The Arctic written by Mark Nuttall and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-05 with Nature categories.
Protecting the Arctic explores some of the ways in which indigenous peoples have taken political action regarding Arctic environmental and sustainable development issues, and investigates the involvement of indigenous peoples in international environmental policy- making. Nuttall illustrates how indigenous peoples make claims that their own forms of resource management not only have relevance in an Arctic regional context, but provide models for the inclusion of indigenous values and environmental knowledge in the design, negotiation and implementation of global environmental policy.
Human And Societal Security In The Circumpolar Arctic
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Author : Kamrul Hossain
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-09-06
Human And Societal Security In The Circumpolar Arctic written by Kamrul Hossain and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-06 with Law categories.
Human and Societal Security in the Circumpolar Arctic addresses the comprehensive understanding of security in the Arctic, and specific challenges of the Arctic population from the viewpoint of human security.