Antarctica and the humanities. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Peder Roberts, Lize-Marié van der Watt, Adrian Howkins, editors.
• Editors: Roberts, Peder; Van der Watt, Lize-Marié; Howkins, Adrian
• Contents: Antarctica: a continent for the humanities / Peder Roberts, Adrian Howkins, and Lize-Marié van der Watt. Part 1 The heroic and the mundane : Antarctic diaries and heroic reputations: changing the subject / Elizabeth Leane -- Beriberi at Kerguelen: a sub-antarctic case study of a tropical disease, 1901-1903 / Cornelia Lüdecke. Part 2 Alternative antarctics : So far, so close: approaching experience in the study of the encounter between sealers and the South Shetland Islands (Antarctica, nineteenth century) / Andrés Zarankin and Melisa Salerno -- The white (supremacist) continent: Antarctica and fantasies of Nazi survival / Peder Roberts -- The whiteness of Antarctica: race and South Africa's Antarctic history / Lize-Marié van der Watt and Sandra Swart. Part 3 Whose Antarctic? : Acting artifacts: on the meanings of material culture in Antartica / Dag Avango -- Finding place in Antarctica / Alessandro Antonello -- Scott's shadow: "Proto Territory" in contemporary Antarctica / Elena Glasberg. Part 4 Valuing Antartcitic science : SCAR as a healing process? Reflections on science and polar politics in the Cold War and beyond: the case of Norway / Stian Bones -- Emergin from the shadow of science: challenges and opportunities for Antarctic history / Adrian Howkins -- Some reflections on the emergence of Antarctic humanities / Aant Elzinga. Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 919.9; History; Humanities -- Antarctica; TRAVEL -- Australia & Oceania; History -- Historiography; Science -- History; Historiography; History of science; History, Modern; Historiography; History -- Modern -- General; History: earliest times to present day; Antarctica -- History; Antarctica; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137545756; 1137545755
• Related ISBNs: 9781137545749; 1137545747
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 13, 2016).
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.