The New Perlustration Of Greenland

Author : Hans Egede
Publisher : International Polar Institute
ISBN 13 : 9781736690208
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Perlustration of Greenland written by Hans Egede and published by International Polar Institute. This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the beginning of the 18th century there still was hope of finding Norse descendants among the Eskimo in Greenland. A Norwegian clergyman, Hans Egede, having managed to persuade the authorities that such people should be converted to the Lutheran faith, arrived in the Godthåb Fjord (in the southwest) to begin a new European settlement in Greenland, but found only Eskimo. The history of modern Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) can be traced to this voyage in 1721. He discovered no survivors of the old colonists, but stayed to found his own settlement at Godthåb (now Nuuk) and to begin the development of the country and its Inuit people.

Author : Bodil Kaalund
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520048409
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Greenland written by Bodil Kaalund and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the art of Greenland from the earliest times to the present.

Author : Mark Nuttall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136786805
Total Pages : 2306 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Arctic written by Mark Nuttall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-09-23 with total page 2306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With detailed essays on the Arctic's environment, wildlife, climate, history, exploration, resources, economics, politics, indigenous cultures and languages, conservation initiatives and more, this Encyclopedia is the only major work and comprehensive reference on this vast, complex, changing, and increasingly important part of the globe. Including 305 maps. This Encyclopedia is not only an interdisciplinary work of reference for all those involved in teaching or researching Arctic issues, but a fascinating and comprehensive resource for residents of the Arctic, and all those concerned with global environmental issues, sustainability, science, and human interactions with the environment.

Author : Felicity Jensz
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030639983
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legacies of David Cranz's 'Historie von Grönland' (1765) written by Felicity Jensz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together interdisciplinary scholars from history, theology, folklore, ethnology and meteorology to examine how David Cranz’s Historie von Grönland (1765) resonated in various disciplines, periods and countries. Collectively the contributors demonstrate the reach of the book beyond its initial purpose as a record of missionary work, and into secular and political fields beyond Greenland and Germany. The chapters also reveal how the book contributed to broader discussions and conceptualizations of Greenland as part of the Atlantic world. The interdisciplinary scope of the volume allows for a layered reading of Cranz’s book that demonstrates how different meanings could be drawn from the book in different contexts and how the book resonated throughout time and space. It also makes the broader argument that the construction of the Artic in the eighteenth century broadened our understanding of the Atlantic.

Author : Richard Ellis
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307454649
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Thin Ice written by Richard Ellis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polar bears—fierce and majestic—have captivated us for centuries. Feared by explorers, revered by the Inuit, and beloved by zoo goers everywhere, they are a symbol for the harsh beauty and muscular grace of the Arctic. But as global warming threatens the ice caps’ integrity, the polar bear has also come to symbolize the environmental peril that has arisen due to harmful human practices. In the past twenty years alone, the world population of polar bears has shrunk by half. Today they number just 22,000. Urgent and stirring, On Thin Ice is both a celebration and a rallying cry on behalf of one of earth’s greatest natural treasures.

Author : Pamela Stern
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000456137
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inuit World written by Pamela Stern and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Inuit World is a robust and holistic reference source to contemporary Inuit life from the intimate world of the household to the global stage. Organized around the themes of physical worlds, moral, spiritual and intellectual worlds, intimate and everyday worlds, and social and political worlds, this book includes ethnographically rich contributions from a range of scholars, including Inuit and other Indigenous authors. The book considers regional, social, and cultural differences as well as the shared histories and common cultural practices that allow us to recognize Inuit as a single, distinct Indigenous people. The chapters demonstrate both the historical continuity of Inuit culture and the dynamic ways that Inuit people have responded to changing social, environmental, political, and economic conditions. Chapter topics include ancestral landscapes, tourism and archaeology, resource extraction and climate change, environmental activism, and women’s leadership. This book is an invaluable resource for students and researchers in anthropology, Indigenous studies, and Arctic studies and those in related fields including geography, history, sociology, political science, and education.

Author : Cian Duffy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319512463
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romantic Norths written by Cian Duffy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores various forms of cultural influence and exchange between Britain and the Nordic countries in the late eighteenth century and romantic period. Broadly new-historicist in approach, but drawing also on influential descriptions of genre, discipline, mediation, cultural exchange, and comparative methodologies, these essays not only constitute a substantial and innovative contribution to scholarly understanding of the development of romanticisms and romantic nationalisms in Britain and the Nordic countries, but also describe a pattern of cultural encounter which was predicated upon exchange and a sense of commonality rather than upon the perception of difference or alterity which has so often been discerned by critical descriptions of British romantic-period engagements with non-British cultures. The volume ought to appeal to a broad and genuinely international academic audience with interests in eighteenth-century and romantic-period culture in Britain and Scandinavia as well as to undergraduates taking courses in eighteenth-century, romantic, and Scandinavian studies.

Author : Søren Rud
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319461583
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonialism in Greenland written by Søren Rud and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the Danish authorities governed the colonized population in Greenland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Two competing narratives of colonialism dominate in Greenland as well as Denmark. One narrative portrays the Danish colonial project as ruthless and brutal extraction of a vulnerable indigenousness people; the other narrative emphasizes almost exclusively the benevolent aspects of Danish rule in Greenland. Rather than siding with one of these narratives, this book investigates actual practices of colonial governance in Greenland with an outlook to the extensive international scholarship on colonialism and post-colonialism. The chapters address the intimate connections between the establishment of an ethnographic discourse and the colonial techniques of governance in Greenland. Thereby the book provides important nuances to the understanding of the historical relationship between Denmark and Greenland and links this historical trajectory to the present negotiations of Greenlandic identity.

Author : Carl Ludwig Giesecke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Description of Greenland. By C. L. Giesecke. From the Edinburgh Encyclopædia, etc written by Carl Ludwig Giesecke and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arctic Institute of North America
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1520 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arctic Bibliography written by Arctic Institute of North America and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: