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04412aam a2200553Ii 4500 001 341538EA84C511E39600D4F1DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140124010023 008 120419s2012 enkab b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1780230184 020 $a 9781780230184 035 $a (OCoLC)788267796 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $e rda $c BTCTA $d BDX $d UKMGB $d YDXCP $d CDX $d YNK $d NZWPM $d YAM $d OBE $d NSB $d VP@ $d DRU $d ZCU $d OCLCF $d IX2 $d SILO 043 $a r------ 050 4 $a G606 $b .M33 2012 082 04 $a 998 $2 23 100 1 $a McCannon, John, $d 1967- $e author. 245 12 $a A history of the Arctic : $b nature, exploration and exploitation / $c John McCannon. 264 1 $a London : $b Reaktion Books, $c 2012. 300 $a 349 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-328) and index. 505 00 $t Extinctions? : 1991 to the present. $t Encounters : prehistory and early history to 1500 CE -- $t Incursions : 1500 to 1800 -- $t Crusades : 1800 to 1914 -- $t Subjugations : 1914 to 1945 -- $t Contaminations : 1945 to 1991 -- $t Extinctions? : 1991 to the present. 520 $a Cold and isolated, yet home to some 4 million people; harsh and unyielding, yet disintegrating with every passing year, the Arctic defies definition. In the modern mind it represents the quintessentially timeless; its landscape imagined both as a realm of crystalline purity and as a frozen kingdom of dread and death. A unique ecosystem that hosts such beloved creatures as the polar bear and the narwhal and serves as the homeland for some of the world's most robust peoples, the Arctic domain has fascinated and unsettled outsiders throughout history. For all its renown the Arctic remains far from perfectly understood, and today it stands at the epicentre of an unprecedented environmental crisis. In this book the author a polar historian provides a far-reaching overview of the region from the Stone Age to the present, examining all of its major aspects from a global perspective. Devoting attention to every Arctic nation, from North America and Greenland to Scandinavia and Russia, this account weaves together topics as diverse as polar exploration and science, Arctic nation-building, the northern environment and the role of indigenous peoples in Arctic history. The author details the centuries-long attempts to navigate and develop the Northwest and Northeast passages, as well as the conflicting claims to each waterway engendered by the rapid melting of Arctic ice today. He also reviews the resources found in the Arctic: oil, natural gas, minerals, sea mammals and fish, describing the importance these hold as such reserves are depleted elsewhere, and the challenges faced in extracting them. With Arctic territorial claims and resource extraction assuming ever-greater importance in the twenty-first century, this book includes an assessment of the current diplomatic and environmental realities of the region, exposing the increasingly dire risks it is likely to face in the near future. This book is a survey of this region at the top of the world. 500 $a New Book -- January -- 2014 651 0 $a Arctic regions $x History. 650 0 $a Geopolitics $z Arctic regions. 651 0 $a Arctic regions $x History. $x History. 650 0 $a Arctic peoples. 651 0 $a Arctic regions $x Environmental conditions. 650 0 $a Climatic changes $x Environmental aspects $z Arctic regions. 650 0 $a Natural resources $z Arctic regions $x Management. 651 0 $a Arctic regions $x Climate. 650 7 $a Arctic peoples. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00814147 650 7 $a Climatic changes $x Environmental aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00864241 650 7 $a Climatology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00864281 650 7 $a Discoveries in geography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00894950 650 7 $a Ecology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901476 650 7 $a Geopolitics. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00941045 650 7 $a Natural resources $x Management. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01034438 651 7 $a Arctic Regions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01240227 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 5 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724071305.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211020206.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180802020237.0 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20140917013347.0 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20140124010201.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=341538EA84C511E39600D4F1DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IX2Initiate Another SILO Locator Search