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Acts of Occupation
Janice Cavell
Jeffrey David Noakes
其他書名
Canada and Arctic Sovereignty, 1918-25
出版
UBC Press
, 2010
主題
History / Canada / General
History / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-)
History / Canada / Provincial, Territorial & Local / Northern Territories (NT, NU, YT)
History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
History / Polar Regions
History / Expeditions & Discoveries
Law / Criminal Law / General
Law / Government / Federal
Law / Housing & Urban Development
Political Science / International Relations / General
Political Science / World / Canadian
Social Science / Social Work
Social Science / Sociology / Urban
Social Science / Poverty & Homelessness
Travel / Canada / General
ISBN
0774818670
9780774818674
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lSL1s6_Da-IC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
"As climate change threatens to open the Northwest Passage to ice-free travel, Canada's sovereignty over the Arctic has become more important to the Canadian government, military, and economy - and more contested by other nations. Although Canada's claim to the Arctic archipelago is now firmly entrenched in the minds of most Canadians, less than a century ago, ownership of the Arctic was much less assured. Acts of Occupation pieces together the engrossing story of how the self-serving ambition of explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson ultimately led Canada to craft and defend a decisive policy on its claims to the Arctic. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped archival sources, including the private papers of explorers Shackleton, Rasmussen, and Stefansson, historians Janice Cavell and Jeff Noakes show how unfounded paranoia about Danish designs on the north, fueled by Stefansson's deliberate dissembling of his own motives and by the fears of civil servant James Harkin, was the catalyst for Canada's active administrative occupation of the Arctic."--Pub. desc.