Explorations In The Icy North
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Explorations In The Icy North
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Author : Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2021-05-11
Explorations In The Icy North written by Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-11 with Science categories.
Science in the Arctic changed dramatically over the course of the nineteenth century, when early, scattered attempts in the region to gather knowledge about all aspects of the natural world transitioned to a more unified Arctic science under the First International Polar Year in 1882. The IPY brought together researchers from multiple countries with the aim of undertaking systematic and coordinated experiments and observations in the Arctic and Antarctic. Harsh conditions, intense isolation, and acute danger inevitably impacted the making and communicating of scientific knowledge. At the same time, changes in ideas about what it meant to be an authoritative observer of natural phenomena were linked to tensions in imperial ambitions, national identities, and international collaborations of the IPY. Through a focused study of travel narratives in the British, Danish, Canadian, and American contexts, Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund uncovers not only the transnational nature of Arctic exploration, but also how the publication and reception of literature about it shaped an extreme environment, its explorers, and their scientific practices. She reveals how, far beyond the metropole—in the vast area we understand today as the North American and Greenlandic Arctic—explorations and the narratives that followed ultimately influenced the production of field science in the nineteenth century.
American Explorations In The Ice Zones
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Author : Joseph Everett Nourse
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
American Explorations In The Ice Zones written by Joseph Everett Nourse and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with Antarctica categories.
With a brief notice of the Antarctic cruise under Lieutenant Wilkes, 1840, and of the locations and objects of the U.S. signal service Arctic observers.
Victorian Interdisciplinarity And The Sciences
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Author : Bernard Lightman
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2024-05-14
Victorian Interdisciplinarity And The Sciences written by Bernard Lightman and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-14 with Science categories.
The specialization thesis—the idea that nineteenth-century science fragmented into separate forms of knowledge that led to the creation of modern disciplines—has played an integral role in the way historians have described the changing disciplinary map of nineteenth-century British science. This volume critically reevaluates this dominant narrative in the historiography. While new disciplines did emerge during the nineteenth century, the intellectual landscape was far muddier, and in many cases new forms of specialist knowledge continued to cross boundaries while integrating ideas from other areas of study. Through a history of Victorian interdisciplinarity, this volume offers a more complicated and innovative analysis of discipline formation. Harnessing the techniques of cultural and intellectual history, studies of visual culture, Victorian studies, and literary studies, contributors break out of subject-based silos, exposing the tension between the rhetorical push for specialization and the actual practice of knowledge sharing across disciplines during the nineteenth century.
On The Backs Of Others
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Author : Edward Armston-Sheret
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2024-12
On The Backs Of Others written by Edward Armston-Sheret and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12 with History categories.
Edward Armston-Sheret offers new perspectives on British exploration during the Victorian and Edwardian eras by focusing on the contributions of those people and animals ordinarily written out of mainstream histories on this era of travel.
The Spectral Arctic
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Author : Shane McCorristine
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2018-05-01
The Spectral Arctic written by Shane McCorristine and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-01 with History categories.
Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of Arctic exploration by paying attention to the importance of dreams and ghosts in the quest for the Northwest Passage. The narratives of Arctic exploration that we are all familiar with today are just the tip of the iceberg: they disguise a great mass of mysterious and dimly lit stories beneath the surface. In contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, this book reveals the hidden stories of dreaming and haunted explorers, of frozen mummies, of rescue balloons, visits to Inuit shamans, and of the entranced female clairvoyants who travelled to the Arctic in search of John Franklin’s lost expedition. Through new readings of archival documents, exploration narratives, and fictional texts, these spectral stories reflect the complex ways that men and women actually thought about the far North in the past. This revisionist historical account allows us to make sense of current cultural and political concerns in the Canadian Arctic about the location of Franklin’s ships.
Arctic Explorations
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Author : Sir Albert Hastings Markham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
Arctic Explorations written by Sir Albert Hastings Markham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Arctic regions categories.
Communicating Ice Through Popular Art And Aesthetics
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Author : Anne Hemkendreis
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-02-22
Communicating Ice Through Popular Art And Aesthetics written by Anne Hemkendreis and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-22 with Art categories.
This book brings together the perspectives of eminent and emerging scholars from fields as varied as science communication, art history, pop cultural studies, environmental studies, sciences studying ice and artists to explore the power of (popular) arts and aesthetics to communicate ice research and the urgency of environmental action. Examining the aesthetic strategies employed in images, (popular) visual fiction and narratives to convey meaning and awareness – and how they can be made fruitful for science communication – the project will generate new perspectives on how our collective environmental responsibility can be addressed and communicated across disciplines and divers audiences. In doing so, the volume will illuminate the cultural power of ice research and contribute to a better understanding of the cultural work that emerges from our ecological crisis.
The Routledge Handbook Of Science And Empire
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Author : Andrew Goss
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-07-05
The Routledge Handbook Of Science And Empire written by Andrew Goss and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-05 with Science categories.
The Routledge Handbook of Science and Empire introduces readers to important new research in the field of science and empire. This compilation of inquiry into the inextricably intertwined history of science and empire reframes the field, showing that one could not have grown without the other. The volume expands the history of science through careful attention to connections, exchanges, and networks beyond the scientific institutions of Europe and the United States. These 27 original essays by established scholars and new talent examine: scientific and imperial disciplines, networks of science, scientific practice within empires, and decolonised science. The chapters cover a wide range of disciplines, from anthropology and psychiatry to biology and geology. There is global coverage, with essays about China, Southeast Asia, the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, India, the Middle East, Russia, the Arctic, and North and South America. Specialised essays cover Jesuit science, natural history collecting, energy systems, and science in UNESCO. With authoritative chapters by leading scholars, this is a guiding resource for all scholars of empire and science. Free of jargon and with clearly written essays, the handbook is a valuable path to further inquiry for any student of the history of science and empire.
The New Science Review
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Author : J. M. Stoddart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
The New Science Review written by J. M. Stoddart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with Science categories.
Disturbed Ecologies
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Author : Darcy White
language : en
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2023-03-03
Disturbed Ecologies written by Darcy White and has been published by transcript Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-03 with Art categories.
The imaginaries of northern landscape have not remained static in the era of ecological crisis but play a pivotal function within the geopolitics of visual representation. Such imaginaries can sanction those dominant discourses that frame environmental catastrophe as the consequence of undifferentiated human activity, but, it is argued, they also have the capacity to represent a complexity and heterogeneity frequently absent from this broad discursive field. The contributors to this volume engage with the practice, curation and utilization of photography and other lens-based media, to examine the critical role of visual culture in shaping and interrogating conceptions of environmental catastrophe.