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LASHIPA : history of large scale resource exploitation in polar areas /
"This book contains most of the papers presented at the final LASHIPA workshop in St Petersburg, Russia 2-4 November 2009. The workshop was organized to finalize the bilateral LASHIPA Russia-Netherlands project and to discuss possible future cooperation between the participants of the sub-proje...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Groningen :
Barkhuis Publishing,
2012.
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| Colección: | Circumpolar studies ;
v. 8. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Introduction; The Organization of Pomor Hunting Expeditions to Spitsbergen in the 18th Century; Productivity and Profitability of Russian Spitsbergen Hunting in the Late 18th Century; Perceptions of Polar Resources: a Comparisonof the Animal Remains of the Russian Hunting Station Kokerineset and the Dutch Whaling Station Smeerenburg; In Search of Profit in the High Arctic. The Commercial Background ofthe Dutch Expedition to Spitsbergen in 1920; Spitsbergen-Imperialists beyond the British Empire.
- Winning Coal at 78 ̊ North: Mining, Contingency and the Chaîne Opératoire in Old Longyear CityBarentsburg:The Soviet Period in the History of the Mine; ""The Essence of the Adventure"":Narratives of Arctic Work and Engineeringin the Early 20th Century; Heritage in Our Wake: A Review of Heritage Provisions Managing Svalbard's Industrial Past; A Science & Technology Studies (STS) Approach on the Evolution of the Modern Whaling Industry; The History of Exploration and Exploitation of the Atlantic Arctic and its Geopolitical Consequences.