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Frozen Assets : ""British mining, exploration, and geopolitics on Spitsbergen, 1904-53""

The focus of this book is the role of Great Britain in the industrial development of Spitsbergen. The primary aim of this study is to explain the British operations on Spitsbergen from a historical international comparative perspective. Hence, the central research question is: What were the driving...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kruse, Frigga
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Havertown : Barkhuis, 2014.
Colección:Circumpolar studies.
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505 0 |a Conversion tables; Dedication; PART I -- INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND; 1 Introduction and contextualisation; 2 Britishness; PART II -- THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL IMAGE; 3 The Archaeology of Arctic Mining; 4 The Archaeology of Arctic Exploration; PART III -- THE HISTORICAL IMAGE; 5 The Spitzbergen Coal & Trading Co., Ltd. (1904-18); 6 The Spitzbergen Mining & Exploration Syndicate, Ltd.(1906-11); 7 The Northern Exploration Co., Ltd. (1910-34); 8 The Scottish Spitsbergen Syndicate, Ltd. (1909-53); PART IV -- THE COMBINED IMAGE; 9 Four British companies on Spitsbergen: discussion andconclusion. 
505 8 |a AcknowledgmentsReferences; Appendix 1 -- Place-names used in the text; Appendix 2 -- Staff of the Scottish Spitsbergen Syndicate; Appendix 3 -- Learned papers of the Scottish Spitsbergen 461Syndicate; English summary; Nederlandse samenvatting. 
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